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Features and admins

By The Placebo Effect, 9 April 2007

Administrators

Eight users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week:

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Featured content

Three articles were promoted to featured status last week: Gwoyeu Romatzyh (nom), Battle of Shiloh (nom) and Doolittle (album) (nom).

Three articles were de-featured last week: Oppenheimer, Suzanne Lenglen, and History of Alaska.

Five lists were promoted to featured status last week: Territorial evolution of Canada (nom), List of delegates to the Millennium Summit (nom), List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni (nom), List of Caribbean drums (nom), and List of Smallville episodes (nom).

No sounds, topics, or portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Ziaur Rahman, Mandy Moore, Medieval cuisine, The Turk, Germany, Daniel Webster and Solar System.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Strabismus surgery, Mandelbrot set, St Isaac's Square, Rothschild's Giraffe, A man riding a bucking bronco, Mexican Wolf, and Saffron.

Eight pictures were promoted to featured status last week:

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  Antennae Galaxies
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  Princeton University
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  Prairie dog

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  Salar de Uyuni
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  Iran hostage crisis
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  Golda Meir

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  Bézier curve
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  Mammatus clouds

Also this week: Poll — Errors — AMA — NYT correction — WikiWorld — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — Technology — Arbitration