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Approved this week

This week's TFPs
Man climbing a statue of a Buddhist idol at Borobudur
Atlantic coast at Porto Covo
Engorged Ixodes ricinus tick
Prickles of a rose plant

Soap (nom), JamesBWatson (nom) and NativeForeigner (nom) were promoted to administrator.

The following seven featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article:

  • Sydney Newman, a Canadian film and television producer who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s
  • Grand Forks, the third-largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Grand Forks County
  • Robert Hues, an English mathematician and geographer who made observations of the variations of the compass off the coast of Newfoundland
  • Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, a 1980 American space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner
  • Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) introduced in the 1930s
  • Choral symphony, a musical composition for orchestra, choir and sometimes solo voices which in its internal workings and overall musical architecture adheres broadly to symphonic musical form
  • Funerary art, any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.

Thirteen articles were promoted to featured status: Neil Brooks (nom), Douglas Jardine (nom), Fresh Blood (Supernatural) (nom), Ben Gascoigne (nom), Battle of Valcour Island (nom), Convention of 1833 (nom), David Lewis (politician) (nom), Battle of Bardia (nom), Sovetsky Soyuz class battleship (nom), Waddesdon Road railway station (nom), Golden-crowned Sifaka (nom), Pithole, Pennsylvania (nom) and Major urinary proteins (nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status: List of M*A*S*H episodes (nom), Timeline of the 2003–04 South Pacific cyclone season (nom), Phil Collins discography (nom), List of birds of Tasmania (nom), List of birds of Leicestershire and Rutland (nom), List of National Basketball Association season assists leaders (nom) and List of Governors of Utah (nom).

One topic was delisted this week: State highways in Marquette County, Michigan (nom).

Media features

Four featured sounds were promoted this week:

Lady Windermere's Fan – Act One(nom)
Lady Windermere's Fan – Act Two(nom)
Lady Windermere's Fan – Act Three(nom)
Lady Windermere's Fan – Act Four(nom)

Seven pictures were promoted to featured status:

Join, or Die Mycena interrupta 1880 Baxter process color plate illustrating Revelation 22:17
El Castillo, Chichen Itza Illustration of Psalm 23 Periclimenes imperator
Playbill for Arizona

















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