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Features and admins

The best of the week

The Fiji Parrotfinch, a colorful finch. Photo by Aviceda.
This week's "Features and admins" covers Sunday 10 – Saturday 16 April

New administrator

The Signpost welcomes Bahamut0013 (nom) as our newest admin. Bob has been with the US Marine Corps since 2003 and with Wikipedia since 2006. He contributes mainly to articles that deal with the Marine Corps, military life and equipment, and video games, movies, anime, and TV shows. He is helping to construct the battleship portal with other members of Operation Majestic Titan. He has just been appointed to the Audit Subcommittee.

At the time of publication there is one live RfA: RHM22, due to finish Tuesday.

A row of giraffes on the restored Broad Ripple Park Carousel
The British conductor Thomas Beecham

Eighteen articles were promoted to featured status:


From the new Featured portal Portal:Arthropods: the Grapsus grapsus, collected by Charles Darwin during his voyages on HMS Beagle

One list was promoted:

One topic was promoted:

  • Portal:Arthropods (nom) was promoted, with 26 selected articles (all good articles, FAs, or FLs), 26 featured pictures, and 16 sets of 6 facts displayed on the Main Page as part of the did you know process.
New featured picture: An Indian sculpture of the Hindu god Shiva in copper alloy. It depicts Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for god Brahma to start the process of creation.

Five images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":


A panorama of Villa Park from the Trinity Road Stand, showing from left to right the North Stand, the Doug Ellis Stand and the Holte End
Information about new admins at the top is drawn from their user pages and RfA texts, and occasionally from what they tell us directly.