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By Tony1 and Dabomb87
New featured picture, the V-22 Osprey in flight over New Mexico; this $27bn project has created a tilt-rotor aircraft that is capable of advanced vertical and horizontal movements.


This week's "Features and admins" covers Sunday 1 May – Saturday 7 May


New administrator

The Signpost welcomes Catfish Jim and the soapdish (nom) as our newest admin. He is primarily a content editor, focusing on subjects relating to Scottish history and geography, and is a member of WikiProject Scotland. He says that he has fallen into an informal anti-vandalism role, and intends to work more in this area as an admin.

If The Signpost had an award for the most imaginative username, Jim would be a very strong candidate.


From the new featured article: SMS Bayern down by the stern and sinking at Scapa Flow, 1919
From the new featured article on WWII German commander Ernst Lindemann, who inspects the crew on the Bismarck, 24 August 1940
Senate House, home to the University of London's administration offices and library. This example of the 1930s monumental style was designed by Charles Holden, the subject of a new featured article.
From the new featured article on the green children of Woolpit: the village sign, depicting the children
After two weeks off from promotions, featured articles has caught up, with an impressive 19 promotions:

Four lists were promoted:

New featured picture: a clear representation of the structure of the DNA double helix
The sheet music cover for a well-known piano piece by American rag composer Zez Confrey (1895–1971); his Kitten on the keys is a new featured sound.
Six images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":

Six sounds were promoted.


From Wehwalt's new featured article, Peace dollar: the obverse (left) and the reverse of the coin.


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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    Where's Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games? I promoted it to Featured topic on May 4th here. GamerPro64 01:28, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    I looked at the box at the FT log and saw May "0 FT"; I was dog-tired after preparing this huge page (21 FAs?). The lost FT would no doubt have been picked up next week (which will be the case). Thanks. Tony (talk) 13:03, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    So this is where the spike in article views for pigeon photography came from! If someone had notified me of this story in advance, I could have corrected it: The article was started here, on the English Wikipedia, by Jennavecia and Malleus Fatuorum in June 2009 as Bavarian Pigeon Corps. In the same month it went to DYK and was nominated for deletion among persistent hoax concerns. This is where I got involved and rewrote it completely. Once I was reasonably happy with it, I translated it to German and took it through German GA. In that state it was featured on the German mainpage in February 2010. But the main development happened here. Hans Adler 15:32, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

    Ah, pity, we certainly would have included that information as "good copy". Thanks. Tony (talk) 18:00, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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