Administrators

Three users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Paul Erik ( nom), SheffieldSteel ( nom), and JGHowes ( nom).

Bots

Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Erwin85Bot ( task request), DinoBot2 ( task request), NVS(bot) ( task request), Lightbot ( task request), Alexbot ( task request), and MelonBot ( task request).

Featured pages

Eighteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: M-28 (Michigan highway) ( nom), Wipeout 3 ( nom), Puerto Rican Amazon ( nom), Hurricane Vince (2005) ( nom), Candide ( nom), Meteorological history of Hurricane Jeanne ( nom), 1995 Japanese Grand Prix ( nom), New York State Route 343 ( nom), The Stolen Earth ( nom), U.S. Route 491 ( nom), Makemake (dwarf planet) ( nom), John McCain ( nom), Tulip mania ( nom), 2005 Azores subtropical storm ( nom), Leonard Harrison State Park ( nom), 4X ( nom), Alexandre Banza ( nom), and Insane Clown Posse ( nom).

Eighteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of Toronto Blue Jays managers ( nom), List of Soundgarden awards ( nom), Screaming Trees discography ( nom), List of parties to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty ( nom), List of Boston Red Sox managers ( nom), Manchester United F.C. records and statistics ( nom), List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington ( nom), Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 7) ( nom), List of Pearl Jam awards ( nom), List of Philadelphia Phillies managers ( nom), List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region ( nom), Timeline of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season ( nom), List of songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock ( nom), NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award ( nom), List of tallest buildings in Shanghai ( nom), List of Minnesota Twins managers ( nom), List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 1999 ( nom), and New York Yankees seasons ( nom).

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: Period 1 elements ( nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed this week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Campaign history of the Roman military, Hurricane Gloria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Pygmy Hippopotamus, Ryan White, Noble gas, and Flea (musician).

Former featured pages

Six articles were delisted this week: Butter ( nom), Objectivist poets ( nom), San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge ( nom), Military history of Canada ( nom), Taiwanese (linguistics) ( nom), and Battle of Hampton Roads ( nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed this week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Onchocerca volvulus, Forked tongue, Temple of Saturn, Navajo rugs, Brolga, Dougong, and Video of political integration of India.

Three sounds were featured this week: Le régiment de Sambre et Meuse ( nom), Ich bin ein Berliner ( nom), and Robin song ( nom)

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Seventeen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

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  Mark Harmon
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  West Los Angeles
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  D-Day
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  Harriet Tubman
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  Vaccination
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  The Taming of the Shrew
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  Palestinian costumes
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  Anti-vaccination quackery, drawn by James Gillray
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  American Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea)
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  "Discovery of the Land", by Candido Portinari
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  St. Alexander's Church
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  Common scorpionfly (Panorpa communis)
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  Shroud of Turin
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  Sultan al-Atrash
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  Mount Cleveland in Alaska
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  Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to Elba
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  Florida Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina)