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Features and admins

The best of the week

New featured picture: User:MrPanyGoff's aerial image of Tartini Square in Piran, in Slovenia on the Adriatic Coast. The square was named after the famous violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini, who was born in the town and whose statue, built in 1896, can be seen at the centre of the square.


This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 26 March – Saturday 2 April (transition to a new Sunday–Saturday window next week)


New administrators

From the new FA, HMS Speedy (1782): the Speedy was cruising off Barcelona at dawn on 6 May 1801 when this large enemy frigate was sighted. Despite being massively outnumbered in crew and firepower, the British outsmarted the Spanish by raising the US flag as they closed in.
Picture-postcard English countryside shot from the striking topographical feature, Glastonbury Tor; see the new FA, Somerset Levels
The Signpost welcomes two editors as our newest admins.

Eight articles were promoted to featured status:

  • John, King of England (nom), "a fascinating ruler at a critical moment in British mediaeval history", says nominator Hchc2009.
  • 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl (nom), a post-season college football bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies (UConn) of the Big East Conference and the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference in Jannuary 2010 at Birmingham, Alabama; it ended in a 20–7 victory for Connecticut. (Grondemar)
  • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (nom), a 2010 crossover fighting game developed by Eighting and published by Capcom for the Wii video game console. (FMF)
  • HMS Speedy (1782) (nom), a 14-gun Speedy-class brig of the British Royal Navy. Built during the last years of the American War of Independence, the ship served with distinction during the French Revolutionary Wars. (Kirk)
  • ARA Rivadavia (nom), a battleship of the Argentine Navy. Named after the first Argentine president, the Rivadavia—launched 1911—was the lead ship of its class. (The ed17)
  • Somerset Levels (nom), a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central Somerset, South West England, about 650 km2 in area). (Rodw)
  • Numerical weather prediction (nom), which uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather based on current weather conditions. Although first attempted in the 1920s, it was not until the advent of computer simulations in the 1950s that numerical weather predictions produced realistic results. (Titoxd)
  • Gymnopilus maritimus (nom), a newly described species of mushroom. (J Milburn)


Otto Weidinger of the Waffen-SS; he was one of 688 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves in 1944

Three lists were promoted:

One featured list was delisted:


Himalayan Bluetail, photographed by User:JJ Harrison in Thailand
New FP, the Sally Lightfoot crab, eyeing you off. West coast of South America.
Eight images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":


Statue of Gustav Holst at his birthplace, Cheltenham, England.
Baroque splendour: User:Murdockcrc's photograph of the Upper Belvedere palace in Vienna, Austria, now a featured picture
Information about new admins at the top is drawn from their user pages and RfA texts, and occasionally from what they tell us directly.