Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-07/Features and admins
Features and admins
Administrators
Four users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Camaron1 (nom), Djsasso (nom), AKeen (nom), and Aqwis (nom).
Bots
Three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: UnCatBot (task request), Maelgwnbot (task request), and BJBot (task request).
Featured pages
Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Altrincham (nom), Sumatran Rhinoceros (nom), Las Meninas (nom), 2003 Atlantic hurricane season (nom), Sid Barnes (nom), Europa (moon) (nom), Storm botnet (nom), Slay Tracks (1933-1969) (nom), Radiohead (nom), Blackbird (nom), Hamlet (nom), 1080° Snowboarding (nom), George Jones (RAAF officer) (nom), and Zodiac (film) (nom).
Five lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of works by William Monahan (nom), List of Indiana state symbols (nom), Green Bay Packers seasons (nom), List of tallest buildings in Cleveland (nom), and List of Heroes episodes (nom).
No portals, topics or sounds were featured last week.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Ulysses (poem), Gregory of Nazianzus, Fin Whale, William Cooley, Queluz National Palace, G. Ledyard Stebbins and Ælle of Sussex .
Former featured pages
3 articles were delisted last week:
- Palace of Westminster (nom) — Nominated by User:hbdragon88 on November 23, 2007. The article was promoted April 17, 2005, before in-line citations was a criteria for becoming a Featured Article. It also contained Weasel words and Manual of Style issues. No improvement was made and it was demoted January 4.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (nom) — Nominated by User:King of Hearts on November 20, 2007. The article was promoted on July 10, 2005. King of Hearts stated that it did not meet three criteria for being a Featured Article; Comprehensiveness, In-Line Citations, and an inadequate lead. User:Borisblue, who originally nominated it for Featured status, due to being busy, was unable to fix the article to meet standards. The Article was demoted on January 4.
- History of the Peerage (nom) — Nominated by User:Judgesurreal777 on November 22, 2007. The Article was promoted on July 15, 2004. Concerns were that there were a shortage of In-Line Citations, the Lead was short, lack of images, and prose issues. Little improvement happened, and the article was demoted on January 7.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Catalan Penedès, Jerome Horsey, European Hornet, Kalmar Union, Montreal City Hall, Franco-Prussian War.
2 pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.
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