Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-05/Features and admins

Administrators

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week:

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Featured pages

Fifteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: Hurricane Grace (1991) (nom), History of the Montreal Canadiens (nom), Columbia River (nom), Simon Bolivar Buckner (nom), Moors murders (nom), Barbara L (nom), Battle of the Alamo (nom), Star Trek: First Contact (nom), Otto Julius Zobel (nom), Rhodotus (nom), Jackie Robinson (nom), Virginia (nom), First Roumanian-American congregation (nom), Brian Booth (nom) and Tragic Kingdom (nom).

No lists were promoted to featured status this week.

No topics were promoted to featured status this week.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Vauxhall Bridge, Texas A&M University, Byzantine navy, The Slave Community, Chinese classifier, Murray Chotiner and Virus.

Former featured pages

One article was delisted this week: Invasion of Poland (1939) (nom).

No list were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Ischnura heterosticta, Werdau townhall, Sprekelia formosissima, American Empire as depicted on Puck, Map of Germany, Ross Bridge and A Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn in 1879.

Twelve featured sounds were promoted this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Nine pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.