Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-09-21/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: MuZemike (nom) and Willking1979 (nom).
Featured pages
Five articles were promoted to featured status this week: Loihi Seamount (nom), Starvin' Marvin (South Park) (nom), MissingNo. (nom), Stanley Green (nom) and Werner Mölders (nom).
Ten lists were promoted to featured status this week: Desperate Housewives (season 1) (nom), Seinfeld (season 2) (nom), Listed buildings in Widnes (nom), List of New York Mets managers (nom), David Bowie discography (nom), List of Tokyo Mew Mew episodes (nom), Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award (nom), List of bridges to the Island of Montreal (nom), List of international cricket centuries by Ricky Ponting (nom) and List of defunct National Basketball Association teams (nom).
One topic was promoted to featured status this week: Rawlings Gold Glove Award (nom).
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: Quark, Stanford Memorial Church, Harbhajan Singh, Samuel Johnson's early life, Economy of the Han Dynasty, General aviation in the United Kingdom and "North by North Quahog".
Former featured pages
No articles were delisted this week.
No lists were delisted this week.
No topics were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Eritrean Railway, Hobart, Mazda6, eye of Hurricane Isabel, Pirate, Old World screw-worm fly and Bethlehem Iron Works.
One featured sound was promoted this week:
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No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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This is the only part of the Wikipedia Signpost that I consistently read, and I've been thinking for some time: Perhaps they ought to also mention the good articles which have been promoted and demoted in the past week. It is about Features and admins, but I think it would be even better and much more thorough if Wikipedia's online paper did a section on Features, goods and admins instead.
Also, in the "Featured Pages" section, it always mentions the amount of recent promotions with articles, lists, topics and portals. However, in the "Former Featured Pages" section, it mentions only former featured articles, lists and topics. Surely a featured portal can fall out of quality as can the others; I think there should be a line mentioning which featured portals, if any, were demoted in a week. Plus, in the "Featured media" section, it continually mentions which, if any, audio files and pictures were promoted to Featured Status. However, while it mentions which pictures if any were demoted, it does not do so for the sounds. Again, I believe something ought to be done about this.
Anyway, I'm not sure if this is the exact appropriate place to leave suggestions for improving the "Features and Admins" department in general, but the department issue for September 21st, 2009 asks for comments, and this is the only comment I have to offer. I hope it helps. Mess around with the guy in shades all you like - don't mess around with the girl in gloves! (talk) 07:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]