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New administrators

The Signpost welcomes three editors as our newest admins.

Boing! said Zebedee (nom), from the UK, is a freelance writer and online forum moderator, who has mainly done gnoming and anti-vandalism work. He is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, the Wikification Drive, and the Wikipedia Typo Team.
Kudpung (nom), from Malvern, UK, has been a significant contributor to five GAs, has founded Wikipedia:WikiProject Worcestershire, and played a part in establishing and implementing the WP:BLPPROD process. He currently coordinates Wikipedia:WikiProject School, and loiters at WP:EAR to offer assistance to newbies. He has credentials in business studies, linguistics, pedagogics, and media, and "wrote some awful plays and an even worse rock opera", he says.
Neelix (nom), from Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada is a veteran editor who has made significant contributions to the backlog at Wikipedia:Requested moves, apart from creating more than 4,000 articles and uploading more than 800 images. He says he's a split infinitive, singular they, and serial comma kind of guy.

At the time of publication there are two live RfAs: Gfoley4 and Slon02 3, both due to finish Saturday 12 March.

Featured sounds

Four featured sounds were promoted.

Johannes Brahms, String Quintet No. 1 Op. 88, first movement Related article. Performed by Roxana Pavel Goldstein, Elizabeth Choi, Elias Goldstein, Sally Chisholm, and Jocelyn Butler. 2nd movement, 3rd movement Problems playing this file? See media help.	Star spangled banner (the US national anthem) Related article. Performed by the US Navy Band Problems playing this file? See media help.
Opening toccata from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607) Related article. Performed by the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble Problems playing this file? See media help.	Matthias Weslund's, Over the northern mountains, from the video game Battle for Wesnoth Related article Problems playing this file? See media help.

Featured lists

Four lists were promoted:

List of battlecruisers of Japan (nom) (Nominated by Climie.ca and The ed17.)
List of Metallica concert tours (nom) (Nominated by Nergaal.)
List of New York Cosmos all-stars (nom) (Nominated by Cliftonian.)
Grammy Award for Best Rap Album (nom) (Nominated by Another Believer.)

Featured articles

A heatmap in the shape of a brain; the center is less bright. — From the new featured article, Parkinson's disease: a PET scan of a healthy brain can be a reference point for diagnosing Parkinson's disease, which involves decreased dopamine activity in the basal ganglia.

Seven articles were promoted to featured status:

Luke P. Blackburn (nom), 19th-century governor of Kentucky, physician, philanthropist, reformer and accused bioterrorist. (Nominated by Acdixon)
L. Ron Hubbard (nom) (1911–86), an American pulp fiction author turned religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology. (MartinPoulter)
Herbie Hewett (nom) (1864–1921), an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset, captaining the county from 1889 to 1893, as well as Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. (Harrias)
2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final (nom), played on 5 October 2010 at Qwest Field in Seattle. The match determined the winner of the 2010 Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. (Skotywa)
Parkinson's disease (nom), the most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease. (Garrondo)
U2 3D (nom), an American-produced 2008 3D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006. (Dream out loud)
Myotis alcathoe (nom), You'd think that after centuries of systematic research, we would at least know all the mammal species in Europe. Wrong; new species are discovered every few years. The bat species described in this article was first named in 2001, and only now are we gaining an understanding of its ecology and distribution. (Ucucha)

Featured pictures

A side-view photograph of a white bird perched atop a rock in front of blue waves crashing in. The white bird has an orange beak with a black wattle and Tertials — New featured picture: User:Benjamint444's photograph of the Nazca Booby on its breeding island in the Galapagos

The same user's photograph of the Common Imperial Blue Butterfly, also promoted last week

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

Haitian Presidential Palace destroyed by Earthquake (nom; related article), after last year's tragic event. The palace's collapsed cupola has become a symbol of the devastation caused by the quake. The Haitian government plans to demolish and reconstruct the palace; so far only the rotunda has been demolished. Reviewer Nergaal said "it is an impressive picture and I am amazed we have a free picture of it". (Created by Logan Abassi; picture at top)
Grey-tailed Tattler (nom; related article), photographed in Tasmania. This close relative of a North American species shows the characteristic unpatterned, greyish wings and back, and a scaly breast pattern extending onto the belly in breeding plumage. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
Black Rhinoceros skull (nom; related article), a historic specimen (with the whole skeleton) was collected in southern Africa for the Gallery of Paleontology and Compared Anatomy, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, by Pierre Antoine Delalande during his travels between 1818 and 1820. (Created by User Jebulon at Commons; picture below.)
Map of the Painted Turtle distribution (nom; related article), a map showing the native range of the Painted Turtle, in North America. The map was praised by reviewers for its quality and encyclopedic value (Created by User:Fallschirmjäger.)
The mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis (nom; related article), a North American mushroom species that clearly shows one of its main characteristics, the extremely slimy cap. (Created by John Kirkpatrick (natashadak) at Mushroom Observer.)
Nazca Booby (nom; related article), a bird found on the Galapagos Islands and known for practising obligate siblicide; The Signpost was disappointed to learn that this is not an unusual sexual position. (Created by User:Benjamint444.)
Common Imperial Blue Butterfly (nom; related article), a small-sized species found in eastern Australia. (Created by User:Benjamint444.)

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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Just a note for the next edition, it's conceivable that we'll hit 2000 featured lists. We're at 1995 at the moment, and last week's number of promotions was lower than usual. —W F C— 14:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You don't show all the FP's? :( TCO (talk) 23:14, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The window is from Saturday to Friday, end midnight UTC. Did we miss any? Tony (talk) 07:53, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You discuss seven FPs in text, but only show four of them as images.

TCO (talk) 08:01, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

TCO, it's a great map, but we can't possibly show all. We will endeavour to show a map in the future. I removed it from here. Link is above for readers who wish to see it. Tony (talk) 08:12, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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