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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 (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: The Corrs discography (nom), List of Swedish-speaking and bilingual municipalities of Finland (nom), List of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes (nom), [[[Nine Inch Nails discography]] ([[Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/[Nine Inch Nails discography/archive1|nom]]), List of members of Stortinget 2005-2009 (nom), List of birds of Thailand (nom), List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients (nom), List of Kaze no Stigma episodes (nom), and Bradford City A.F.C. seasons (nom).

One Featured topic was promoted last week: National Hockey League awards (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)