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Features and admins

By The Placebo Effect, 26 November, 2007

Administrators

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

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Bots

Eight bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, Template:Boa, and Template:Boa.

Featured content

Twenty articles were promoted to featured status last week: The Green (Dartmouth College) (nom), Manchester (nom), Presque Isle State Park (nom), South Side (Chicago) (nom), Youngstown, Ohio] ([[Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Youngstown, Ohio]/archive1|nom]]), 1999 Sydney hailstorm (nom), Harriet Tubman (nom), Ulysses (poem) (nom), But I'm a Cheerleader (nom), Superman film series (nom), One Hot Minute (nom), Vega (nom), Nancy Reagan (nom), Bobby Eaton (nom), Karmichael Hunt (nom), John Knox (nom), Arthur Morris (nom), Marcus Trescothick (nom), Crazy Taxi (series) (nom), and The Joy of Sect (nom).

Fourteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Naruto manga volumes (nom), List of Carnivàle episodes (nom), Feeder discography (nom), List of Bristol Rovers F.C. managers (nom), Gillingham F.C. seasons (nom), NWA World Women's Championship (nom), Milestone home runs by Barry Bonds (nom), List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients (nom), Minutemen discography (nom), IWGP World Heavyweight Championship (nom), List of palms of the Caribbean (nom), List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (nom), List of films that received the Golden Film (nom), and List of Silverchair awards (nom).

One Featured topic was promoted last week: Seasons of Lost (nom).

No portals or sounds were featured last week.

No articles were de-featured last week.

One picture was delisted this week: Image:PaintedBunting23.jpg (nom).

No lists, portals, topics, or sounds were de-featured last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Michael Jordan, Restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes, Halo: Combat Evolved, Oklahoma, Honoré de Balzac, Lung cancer, and Sophie Blanchard.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Terraforming of Mars, Pink Pimelea, Sitting Bull, Holoplatys, United States Homefront, and Neurons.

Seven pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.

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  Toledo (nom)
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  Magpie-goose (nom)
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  Fissure vent (nom)
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  First Chechen War (nom)
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  The School of Athens (nom)
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  Emperor Tamarin (nom)
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  Tugboat (nom)