This week's "Features and admins" covers Sunday 10 – Saturday 16 April
New administrator
The Signpost welcomes
Bahamut0013 (
nom) as our
newest admin. Bob has been with the US Marine Corps since 2003 and with Wikipedia since 2006. He contributes mainly to articles that deal with the Marine Corps, military life and equipment, and video games, movies, anime, and TV shows. He is helping to construct the battleship portal with other members of
Operation Majestic Titan. He has just been appointed to the
Audit Subcommittee.
At the time of publication there is one live RfA:
RHM22, due to finish Tuesday.
White Stork (
nom), which, according to Northern European legend, brings babies to new parents. (
Casliber)
Cloud (video game) (
nom), a puzzle video game in which the player assumes the role of a sleeping boy and manipulates clouds to solve puzzles. (
PresN)
Flowing Hair dollar (
nom), the first dollar coin issued by the United States federal government. It was minted in 1794 and 1795. (
RHM22)
True at First Light (
nom), by Ernest Hemingway. It described his 1953–54 East African safari with his fourth wife Mary, and sparked a literary controversy for its alteration after Hemingway's death. (
Truthkeeper88)
CSI effect (
nom), or how crime television shows have affected public opinion on forensic science. (
Cryptic C62)
Egyptian temple (
nom), a majestic structure in which the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt worshipped the gods. (
A. Parrot)
Cyclone Waka (
nom), one of the most destructive tropical cyclones ever to impact the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. (
Cyclonebiskit)
Mike Jackson (
nom), a retired British Army general who at the end of the Kosovo War famously refused to enforce an order by US general Wesley Clark (requiring Captain James Blunt, the future pop star, to act against Russian forces), reputedly telling Clark "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you". (
HJ Mitchell)
Villa Park (
nom), home to the Aston Villa Football Club since 1897. (
Woody)
Unknown (magazine) (
nom); according to nominator
Mike Christie, "it was one of the few pulp magazines aimed at a mature and intelligent readership, and the memoirs of long time science fiction fans and authors are full of laments for its passing in 1943, a victim of wartime paper shortages".
Thomas Beecham (
nom), an English conductor who founded the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic orchestras. (
Tim riley)
Portal:Arthropods (
nom) was promoted, with 26 selected articles (all good articles, FAs, or FLs), 26 featured pictures, and 16 sets of 6 facts displayed on the Main Page as part of the
did you know process.
Featured pictures
New featured picture: An Indian sculpture of the Hindu god
Shiva in copper alloy. It depicts Shiva as the cosmic dancer who performs his divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for god Brahma to start the process of creation.
Five images were
promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
Dial-up modem (
nom;
related article), the noises typical of a dial-up modem negotiating a connection with an internet service provider.
Ave Maria (Gregorian chant) (
nom;
related article), a traditional Roman Catholic prayer asking for the help of the Virgin Mary. Here, it is performed as a traditional Gregorian chant.
Discuss this story
The link to the nomination process of the article CSI effect is incorrect. It was linked to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/CSI effect/archive1 instead of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/CSI effect/archive2 203.45.186.197 ( talk) 06:24, 19 April 2011 (UTC) reply
- Fixed, thanks! Regards,
HaeB (
talk)
12:14, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
reply
Once again there are more Featured Sounds than Featured Pictures this Signpost. Quite impressive. Can anyone tell me the cause of this recent development? MasterOfHisOwnDomain ( talk) 19:56, 20 April 2011 (UTC) reply