MyWiki:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-28/Features and admins

{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-header|||}} {{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|28 June 2010}}

This week's TFPs

Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti

1933 view of the GE Building

George R. Mann's design for the Arkansas State Capitol

Carson Helicopters S-61N Fire King being fueled during helitack operations

House Sparrow

Eupeodes corollae hoverfly

File:Stocking factory2.jpg

1886 advertisement for a hosiery firm that depicts its factory floor with workers using knitting machines

Theleftorium (nom) was promoted to administrator.

The following seven featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article:

• "Jack the Ripper", the best known pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888
• Raccoon, a medium-sized mammal native to North America
• Ernest Hemingway, an American writer and journalist
• Captain Jack Sparrow, a fictional character portrayed by Johnny Depp introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Michael Jackson, an American recording artist, entertainer, and philanthropist
• The privilege of peerage, the body of special privileges belonging to members of the British peerage
• Terra Nova Expedition, an expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole.

Promoted and former featured pages

Five articles were promoted to featured status: St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao (nom), Hurricane Carmen (nom), 1975 Australian constitutional crisis (nom), Cryptoprocta spelea (nom) and Tropical Storm Brenda (1960) (nom).

Six lists were promoted to featured status: List of tallest buildings in Dayton (nom), List of Minnesota Twins first-round draft picks (nom), List of FC Barcelona players (nom), Major League Baseball Triple Crown (nom), List of Texas Rangers first-round draft picks (nom) and Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (nom).

One article was delisted: Israel (nom).

Media features

Two featured sounds were promoted this week:

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Cat purring

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The national anthem of the nation of New Zealand, as performed by the United States Navy.

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Twelve pictures were promoted to featured status:

	File:Mark Rutte-6.jpg		File:Big White Fog.jpg		File:Pano Baalbek 1.jpg
	Mark Rutte		Big White Fog		Baalbek
	File:Morchella elata 83497.jpg		File:Niobium crystals and 1cm3 cube.jpg		File:Elakala Waterfalls Swirling Pool Mossy Rocks.jpg
	Morchella elata		Niobium		Elakala falls
	File:Mycena leaiana var. australis.jpg		File:Deepwater Horizon oil spill - May 24, 2010.jpg		File:Chicago Grant Park night pano.jpg
	Mycena leaiana		Deepwater Horizon oil spill		Skyline of Chicago
	File:Citrus paradisi (Grapefruit, pink) white bg.jpg		File:Cologne - Panoramic Image of the old town at dusk.jpg		File:Oxalis Triangularis Photonasty Timelapse.ogv
	Grapefruit		Cologne		Oxalis triangularis exhibiting nastic movement

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