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Big week for ships and music

A 17th-century painting of Orpheus with his viol (left), and the front cover of the 1609 published score, from L'Orfeo, Claudio Monteverdi's landmark opera from the early Italian baroque, and our featured article Choice of the week.


Administrator

The Signpost welcomes Eagles247 (nom) as a new admin. Eagles247, from Philadelphia, has been editing since May 2009, with 18,000 edits, 50 new articles, two GAs and nine DYKs to his name. His interests include American football articles, and he is a member of WikiProject National Football League and WikiProject College football. He intends to participate at AIV, AFD, MFD and NPP, and has increasing expertise at sockpuppet investigations.


The cover of Essai, by the significant but under-recognised 18th-century economist, Richard Cantillon
Six articles were promoted to featured status:

Choice of the week. Raul654, Wikipedia's Featured Article Director, has shepherded the process since its early days. We owe it to him that featured articles have appeared since January 2004 in a prominent spot on the main page, which has greatly increased their profile in the project. The Signpost asked Raul to select the best of the week.



Five topics were promoted, three of them prepared by WikiProject Military History. The first two complete the German pre-dreadnought series, leaving only the WWI-era Helgoland, Kaiser, and König classes and the handful of WWII-era ship articles to be done, "before this monster is finally finished", says nominator Parsecboy:


The German battleship Hessen passes the Levensau Bridge—from Braunschweig class battleship, one of the articles in the new featured topic of that name.


Three lists were promoted. These will be considered for Choice of the week in the next edition.


A Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania
Rare samples of the transition metal, rhenium
Seven images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
Choice of the week. Our judge, Nhobgood, considered the promotions last week, plus the three eligible promotions from the week before (Red-and-yellow Barbet, Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, and USS Oregon in dry dock). He told The Signpost:
"Definitely not an easy choice this week. All the images are excellent, some depicting interesting historical events and others adding to our knowledge of natural history. Although much of my experience is underwater, having chased a good number of darting fish and other fast-moving critters, I can really appreciate the skill that was required to capture an image of a subject moving at high speed at such a distance. For me, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (pictured at the bottom of last week's page) sticks out above the others as a high-quality image and a great choice for nomination. – Nick"


The US Navy captured this shot of the 1988 collision between USS Yorktown (CG-48)—while it was exercising "the right of innocent passage" through Soviet territorial waters—and the Soviet Krivak I class frigate "Bezzavetniy". The collision appears to have been intentional.

















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