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{{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Signpost-article-header-v2|{{{1|Features and admins}}}|By [[User:seresin|seresin]]}}

===Administrators===
Four editors were [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship|granted]] [[Wikipedia:Administrators|admin status]] via the Requests for Adminship process this week: [[User:R'n'B|R'n'B]] ([[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/R'n'B|nom]]), [[User:PeterSymonds|PeterSymonds]] ([[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PeterSymonds 2|nom]]), [[User:Geni|Geni]] ([[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Geni 4|nom]]) and [[User:Kanonkas|Kanonkas]] ([[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kanonkas|nom]]).

PeterSymonds and Geni were both former administrators who were desysopped by ArbCom.

===Bots===
Eight bots or bot tasks were [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval|approved]] to [[Wikipedia:Bot policy|begin operating]] this week:
[[User:DirlBot|DirlBot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DirlBot{{#if:4|_4}}|task request]]),
[[User:LivingBot|LivingBot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot{{#if:3|_3}}|task request]]),
[[User:AntiAbuseBot|AntiAbuseBot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/AntiAbuseBot{{#if:|_}}|task request]]),
[[User:Rubinbot|Rubinbot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Rubinbot{{#if:|_}}|task request]]),
[[User:Bot0612|Bot0612]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Bot0612{{#if:5|_5}}|task request]]),
[[User:GhalyBot|GhalyBot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/GhalyBot{{#if:|_}}|task request]]),
[[User:LivingBot|LivingBot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/LivingBot{{#if:4|_4}}|task request]]) and
[[User:Arbitrarily0Bot|Arbitrarily0Bot]] ([[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Arbitrarily0Bot{{#if:|_}}|task request]]).

[[User:AntiAbuseBot|AntiAbuseBot]] is a bot with an administrator flag that monitors RC feeds for known vandal patterns, and takes appropriate administrator measures.

===Featured pages===
Twelve articles were promoted to [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured status]] this week: {{foa|Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment}}, {{foa|Typhoon Tip}}, {{foa|State Route 74 (New York – Vermont)}}, {{foa|2008 Japanese Grand Prix}}, {{foa|Super Columbine Massacre RPG!}}, {{foa|Meshuggah}}, {{foa|Operation Uranus}}, {{foa|Isaac Shelby}}, {{foa|The Raft of the Medusa}}, {{foa|Columbia Slough}}, {{foa|Barton Fink}} and {{foa|Hurricane Linda (1997)}}.

Seven [[Wikipedia:Featured lists|lists]] were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|List of 24 episodes}}, {{fol|Tokio Hotel discography}}, {{fol|Megadeth discography}}, {{fol|Girls Aloud discography}}, {{fol|List of Second Boer War Victoria Cross recipients}}, {{fol|List of female United States Cabinet Secretaries}} and {{fol|List of New York Islanders head coaches}}.

Two [[Wikipedia:Featured topic|topics]] were promoted to featured status this week: {{fot|Seasons of Avatar: The Last Airbender}} and {{fot|Nobel Laureates}}.

Two [[Wikipedia:Featured portal|portals]] were promoted to featured status this week: {{fop|Atlas}} and {{fop|Brazil}}.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article|Today's featured article]]: [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Washington, D.C.]], [[Ants]], [[Lost: Missing Pieces]], [[Susianna Kentikian]], [[SS Ohioan (1914)|SS ''Ohioan'']] and [[Adolfo Farsari]].

===Former featured pages===
Two [[Wikipedia:Former featured articles|articles]] were delisted this week: {{ffr|French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools}} and {{ffr|Indian Railways}}.

One [[Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates|list]] was delisted this week: {{ffl|Battles of the Mexican–American War}}.

No [[Wikipedia:Featured topic removal candidates|topics]] were delisted this week.

===Featured media===
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day|picture of the day]]: [[:File:Blanchardballoon3.jpg|Sophie Blanchard]], [[:File:Obama_Portrait_2006.jpg|Barack Obama]], [[:File:Eichmann_trial_news_story.ogg|Video summarizing the end of the Adolf Eichmann trial]], [[:File:Lohengrin_-_Illustrated_Sporting_and_Dramatic_News.png|''Lohengrin'']], [[:File:82northe.jpg|Ziegler Polar Expedition]], [[:File:Schnepfenfliege Rhagio scolopaceus2.jpg|Snipe fly]] and [[:File:Staten Island Ferry terminal.jpg|Staten Island Ferry]].

Two [[Portal:Featured sounds|media files]] were featured this week:

{{*sound|Harry Truman Announcing Surrender Of Japan.ogg|Harry Truman announcing surrender of Japan|([[Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Harry Truman announcing surrender of Japan|nom]])}}

{{*sound|LBJ Civil Rights signing 1964 edited.ogg|Remarks by Lyndon Baines Johnson upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964|([[Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964|nom]])}}

No featured [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist|pictures]] were demoted this week.

Fourteen pictures were promoted to [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|featured]] status this week and are shown below.

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File:Long legged fly.jpg|''[[Dolichopodidae]]''
File:Gustave Doré - Dante Alighieri - Inferno - Plate 22 (Canto VII - Hoarders and Wasters).jpg|''[[The Divine Comedy]]''
File:Craticulina sp.jpg|''[[Craticulina]]''
File:Gaillardia fanfare centered.jpg|''[[Gaillardia]]''
File:CA Ground Squirrel on rock.jpg|''[[Spermophilus]]''
File:Darwin restored2.jpg|[[Charles Darwin]]
File:Female superb fairy wren-edit1.jpg|[[Superb Fairy Wren]]
File:Dusky moorhen442.jpg|[[Dusky Moorhen]]
File:Amsterdam photochrom2.jpg|[[Dam Square]], [[Amsterdam]]
File:Charon's_Boat.jpg|[[Charon]]
File:Queen_Wilhelmina2.jpg|[[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]]
File:Werdau - townhall (aka).jpg|[[Werdau]] town hall
File:Sarcophaga Bercaea2.jpg|[[Flesh-fly]]
File:Ch.megacephala wiki.jpg|''[[Chrysomya megacephala]]''
</gallery>

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