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Features and admins

Features and admins

Administrators

Three users were granted admin status last week: Luna Santin (nom), Oscarthecat (nom) and Hoopydink (nom).

Also of note was Everyking's request for re-adminship after being desysopped on an emergency basis by the Arbitration Committee (see previous article) last week. He was nominated by Haukur, and Everyking accepted the nomination on 10 September. Tony Sidaway closed the nomination after a little over ten hours on the grounds of the snowball clause, with the count at 11/32/5.

Featured Content

Sixteen articles were featured last week: Dr Pepper Ballpark (nom), Dürer's Rhinoceros (nom), Battle of Savo Island (nom), Palpatine (nom), Salvador Dalí (nom), Megatokyo (nom), Enzyme (nom), Ace Books (nom), Al-Kateb v Godwin (nom), 35 mm film (nom), Bhumibol Adulyadej (nom), Seabird (nom), Crushing by elephant (nom) (the 7th article to be de-featured, then re-promoted), Banff National Park (nom), Jaws (film) (nom) and Daniel Webster (nom).

Three articles were de-featured last week: Art competitions at the Olympic Games, Wario and Victoria of the United Kingdom.

No portals reached featured status last week.

One list reached featured list status last week: List of dinosaurs.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Emu, United States House of Representatives, Belton House, Hilary Putnam, Autostereogram, Simon Byrne and Actuary.

The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as the pictures of the day: Sarracenia, Hippopotamuses, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Melbourne Docklands, United States Declaration of Independence and Coal-fired thermal power station.

Six pictures reached featured picture status last week:

Six pictures were de-featured last week: Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Einstein (suspected copyright violation), Alphonse Mucha Dancel (deleted as copyright violation), Gliding, Moscow Metro and Gothic architecture.