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Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Floquenbeam (nom).

One editor was promoted to bureaucrat this week: Useight (nom).

Four articles were promoted to featured status this week: 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt (nom), Drosera regia (nom), The Battle of Alexander at Issus (nom) and Noronhomys (nom).

Six lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of DART Light Rail stations (nom), List of World Series champions (nom), Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (nom), List of Asian American Medal of Honor recipients (nom), Grammy Legend Award (nom) and List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana (nom).

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: History of the Montreal Canadiens, Raptor Red, City and South London Railway, Operation Tractable, Sid Barnes, Hawksbill turtle and Attachment theory.

Three articles were delisted this week: Serial Experiments Lain (nom), V for Vendetta (film) (nom) and Jonathan Wild (nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

No portals were delisted this week.

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Anemone stinkhorns, Nineteenth century photo of snake charmers, 1856 lithograph of the Selimiye Barracks, 1900 poster for "Gaiety Dancers", Black Phoebe, NGC 5866 and Scanning electron microscope image of a rust mite.

One featured sound was promoted this week:

It's a Long Way to Tipperary, written by Jack Judge in 1912 and performed here by Albert Farrington in 1915.(nom)

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Two pictures were promoted to featured status this week.