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Features and admins
The best of the week
This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 26 March – Saturday 2 April (transition to a new Sunday–Saturday window next week)
New administrators
- Feezo (nom), from California, will continue to work in new page patrol, monitor the noticeboards, and respond to permissions requests.
- Salvio giuliano (nom), studied law at the University of Pavia in Italy, specialises in articles on Italian law, and is a member of WikiProject Law. He is active in patrolling new pages, fighting vandalism, and detecting inappropriate usernames. He is a clerk for ArbCom, and has experience working at the Mediation Cabal. He is seeking to adopt new users.
Featured articles
Eight articles were promoted to featured status:
- John, King of England (nom), "a fascinating ruler at a critical moment in British mediaeval history", says nominator Hchc2009.
- 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl (nom), a post-season college football bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies (UConn) of the Big East Conference and the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference in Jannuary 2010 at Birmingham, Alabama; it ended in a 20–7 victory for Connecticut. (Grondemar)
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (nom), a 2010 crossover fighting game developed by Eighting and published by Capcom for the Wii video game console. (FMF)
- HMS Speedy (1782) (nom), a 14-gun Speedy-class brig of the British Royal Navy. Built during the last years of the American War of Independence, the ship served with distinction during the French Revolutionary Wars. (Kirk)
- ARA Rivadavia (nom), a battleship of the Argentine Navy. Named after the first Argentine president, the Rivadavia—launched 1911—was the lead ship of its class. (The ed17)
- Somerset Levels (nom), a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central Somerset, South West England, about 650 km2 in area). (Rodw)
- Numerical weather prediction (nom), which uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather based on current weather conditions. Although first attempted in the 1920s, it was not until the advent of computer simulations in the 1950s that numerical weather predictions produced realistic results. (Titoxd)
- Gymnopilus maritimus (nom), a newly described species of mushroom. (J Milburn)
Featured lists
Three lists were promoted:
- List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves recipients (1944) (nom) (Nominated by MisterBee1966.)
- Listed buildings in Poulton-le-Fylde (nom) (Nominated by Belovedfreak.)
- Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer (nom) (Nominated by PresN.)
One featured list was delisted:
- List of Washington Metro stations (nom: outdated information, style, referencing)
Featured pictures
- Tartini Square, Piran (nom; related article), The Tartini Square is the largest and main square in the coastal town of Piran, Slovenia. It was named after the famous violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini (born in the town), whose statue was placed here in 1896. (Created by User:MrPanyGoff.) picture at top
- Red-wattled Lapwing (nom; related article), a large plover with characteristic loud alarm calls that are variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
- Upper Belvedere palace in Vienna (nom; related article), one of two magnificent Baroque palaces in the capital of Austria. (Created by User:Murdockcrc.) picture at bottom
- Tickell's Blue Flycatcher (nom; related article), which breeds in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka to Indonesia. They are blue on the upper parts and the throat, with a rufous breast, and are found in dense scrub to forest habitats. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
- The Sally Lightfoot crab (nom; related article), or red rock crab, Grapsus grapsus, is found along the western coast of South America. (Created by Lieutenant Elizabeth Crapo, US National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.)
- God defend New Zealand manuscript (nom; related article), the original 1876 manuscript of the national anthem of New Zealand, by John Joseph Woods. (Created by User:Sonia, edited by User:SMasters.)
- Himalayan Bluetail (nom; related article), a short-distance migrant species, breeding in mixed coniferous forest with undergrowth at 3,000–4,400 m in the Himalaya and southwestern China, and wintering at 1,500–2,500 m. The males have a the more vivid blue colour. The species is insectivorous. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
- Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (nom; related article), like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. It is predominantly green, with blue on the rump and lower belly. Its face and throat are yellow with a black eye stripe, and the crown and nape are rich chestnut. The thin curved bill is black. The sexes are alike, but young birds are duller. Adults tend to be 18–20 cm long. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
Featured sounds
- Gustav Holst's The Planets (nom) – five of the seven movements of an orchestral suite written by the English composer Gustav Holst from 1914 to 1916. The Suite is widely considered to be Holst's most popular piece, in which each movement is named after a planet of the Solar System. These arrangements for military band (without strings), were arranged by Patterson and are performed by the US Air Force Band:
- Cantillation (nom; related article), a ritual chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible in a synagogue service. This one is a Hebrew Torah blessing chanted before the reading of the Torah during a Reform Bar Mitzvah, performed by Cantor Seth Warner.
- Four marches (nom) performed by the US Air Force Band:
- Washington grays – Claudio S. Grafulla's American Civil War march (related article).
- The gladiator march – John Philip Sousa's first hit (related article).
- Sweeney's cavalcade – by William Paris Chambers.
- Front section march – by Edwin Eugene Bagley.
- Four Christmas carols (nom) performed by the US Army Band:
- Here we come a-wassailing – a 19th-century English (related article).
- O Tannenbaum – an 1824 German carol, written and arranged by Ernst Anschütz, based on an old folk melody (related article).
- Hark! The herald angels sing – English, with contributions from Charles Wesley, George Whitfield, Felix Mendelssohn, William H. Cummings (related article).
- Coventry Carol 16th-century English (related article).
- Two Christmas carols (nom) performed by the US Army Band:
- Lo How a Rose – "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming", an 1894 English translation of the 16th-century German carol "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen".
- Gesù bambino – a 1917 Italian carol by Pietro Yon, in an English translation by Frederick H. Martens (related article).
- O Canada (nom; related article), the Canadian national anthem, originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Théodore Robitaille in 1880, and written by Calixa Lavallée as a setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
Information about new admins at the top is drawn from their user pages and RfA texts, and occasionally from what they tell us directly.
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