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Features and admins

The best of the week

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Sphilbrick (nom), from Connecticut on the east coast of the US, has experience at MFD and Requests for feedback. His contributions to content work include the areas of women's basketball and local history, and he has uploaded more than 170 photographs, mostly from the US National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Connecticut photo contest.
PresN (nom), an electrical engineering graduate from the University of Texas, currently works as a software development engineer in Seattle, Washington. He is an active member of the Video Games WikiProject and has made significant contributions to the promotion of 12 featured articles and lists, and of 45 good articles. A particular interest of his is video game music, including the Music of the Final Fantasy series.

Featured articles

The ruins of the castle built at Acton Burnell by Robert Burnell, where it is believed the first parliament of England at which the Commons were fully represented was held, in 1283

Four articles were promoted to featured status. These will be added to next week's promotions for the next Choice of the week.

Petrified Forest National Park (nom), is named after its petrified logs. Its 380 km² (146 sq mi) include the badlands (picture at top), petroglyphs, pueblo ruins, sandy washes, abundant grasslands, and a wide variety of wildlife. (nominated by Finetooth)
Robert Burnell (nom), another bad-boy bishop; this advisor to Edward I has a mistress and kids hanging out in the shadows, says nominator Ealdgyth.
Aylesbury duck (nom), the story of how the economics, technology and values of the Industrial Revolution intersected with the farming methods of the Middle Ages, and briefly turned an obscure English country town into an early example of large-scale factory farming. The squeamish might well want to stay away, says nominator iridescent.
Dendrocollybia (nom), the branched shanklet, is the only mushroom that produces little branches along the length of its stem; these slimy outgrowths allow it to reproduce asexually, on top of its sexual capacity via spores produced on its gills. "Clever or what?", says nominator Sasata.

Two featured articles were delisted:

Radhanite (nom: lack of breadth and depth of coverage; sourcing issues)
Kaziranga National Park (nom: sourcing and formatting)

Featured lists

Four lists were promoted:

List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK) (nom) (nominated by Rambo's Revenge)
Philadelphia Phillies all-time roster (A) (nom) (Killervogel5)
Grammy Award for Best Polka Album (nom) (Another Believer)
Fantasia Barrino discography (nom) (Candyo32)

Two featured lists were delisted:

List of YuYu Hakusho episodes (nom: referencing, lead)
List of extreme points of Bulgaria (nom: there were concerns that the list was a content fork)

Featured pictures

Six images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":

Venus flytrap sea anemone (nom), an anemone that resembles the Venus Flytrap (Aquapix and Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007, NOAA-OE (PD-US-gvnt); picture at right).
Grandidier's Baobab tree (nom), or Adansonia grandidieri, is endemic to Madagascar and classified as endangered. It is the most striking and well-known of the baobabs of that island (Bernard Gagnon; picture at right).
Scaldfish larva (nom), (Arnoglossus laterna) about 9 mm (0.35 in) long, from a species of bottom feeder benthic fish 12–20 cm long with pale yellow ruffled scales (Hans Hillewaert).
Purple mangosteen (nom), or Garcinia mangostana), together with its cross section. The rind is a deep reddish purple when ripe; only the white aril is edible, with a sweet, tangy in flavour, with a peach-like texture (SMasters).
Malmtrafik Iore-hauled train at Torneträsk (nom), a new Swedish-engineered Iore electric locomotive for iron-ore haulage, at Torneträsk in Sweden (Kabelleger; picture below).
Gorgonian wrapper (nom), a species of sea anemone found in central Indo-Pacific waters (Nick Hobgood).

Choice of the week. Noodle snacks, a regular reviewer and nominator at featured picture candidates, told The Signpost:

"I chose Venus flytrap sea anemone for its sharpness and encyclopedic value. The photo was taken on the US Government's NOAA “Expedition to the Deep Slope 2007” at a depth of more than 1,000 m, presenting interesting technical challenges, including the provision of an artificial source of light."