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By Tony1 and Dabomb87
An aerial photograph of a white building with a green lawn and palm trees. Onlooking are standing behind the white fence on the road. The roof appears to have collapsed upon the story beneath and concert rumble is blocking the front steps.
New featured picture: dramatic but still—the Haitian Presidential Palace, taken the day after the devastating 2010 earthquake. The palace's collapsed cupola has become a symbol of the devastation caused by the quake.


This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 26 February – Friday 4 March


New administrators

The Signpost welcomes three editors as our newest admins.

  • Boing! said Zebedee (nom), from the UK, is a freelance writer and online forum moderator, who has mainly done gnoming and anti-vandalism work. He is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, the Wikification Drive, and the Wikipedia Typo Team.
  • Kudpung (nom), from Malvern, UK, has been a significant contributor to five GAs, has founded Wikipedia:WikiProject Worcestershire, and played a part in establishing and implementing the WP:BLPPROD process. He currently coordinates Wikipedia:WikiProject School, and loiters at WP:EAR to offer assistance to newbies. He has credentials in business studies, linguistics, pedagogics, and media, and "wrote some awful plays and an even worse rock opera", he says.
  • Neelix (nom), from Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada is a veteran editor who has made significant contributions to the backlog at Wikipedia:Requested moves, apart from creating more than 4,000 articles and uploading more than 800 images. He says he's a split infinitive, singular they, and serial comma kind of guy.

At the time of publication there are two live RfAs: Gfoley4 and Slon02 3, both due to finish Saturday 12 March.


Four featured sounds were promoted.

Johannes Brahms black and white photograph
Johannes Brahms, String Quintet No. 1 Op. 88, first movement
Related article. Performed by Roxana Pavel Goldstein, Elizabeth Choi, Elias Goldstein, Sally Chisholm, and Jocelyn Butler.

2nd movement, 3rd movement

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"Star Spangled Banner" cover engraving
Star spangled banner (the US national anthem)
Related article. Performed by the US Navy Band
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Orpheus playing the violin painting
Opening toccata from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607)
Related article. Performed by the Bangkok Baroque Ensemble
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Wesnoth Sylph illustration
Matthias Weslund's, Over the northern mountains, from the video game Battle for Wesnoth
Related article
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Four lists were promoted:


A heatmap in the shape of a brain; the center is less bright.
From the new featured article, Parkinson's disease: a PET scan of a healthy brain can be a reference point for diagnosing Parkinson's disease, which involves decreased dopamine activity in the basal ganglia.
Seven articles were promoted to featured status:
  • Luke P. Blackburn (nom), 19th-century governor of Kentucky, physician, philanthropist, reformer and accused bioterrorist. (Nominated by Acdixon)
  • L. Ron Hubbard (nom) (1911–86), an American pulp fiction author turned religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology. (MartinPoulter)
  • Herbie Hewett (nom) (1864–1921), an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset, captaining the county from 1889 to 1893, as well as Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club. (Harrias)
  • 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final (nom), played on 5 October 2010 at Qwest Field in Seattle. The match determined the winner of the 2010 Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. (Skotywa)
  • Parkinson's disease (nom), the most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease. (Garrondo)
  • U2 3D (nom), an American-produced 2008 3D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006. (Dream out loud)
  • Myotis alcathoe (nom), You'd think that after centuries of systematic research, we would at least know all the mammal species in Europe. Wrong; new species are discovered every few years. The bat species described in this article was first named in 2001, and only now are we gaining an understanding of its ecology and distribution. (Ucucha)


A side-view photograph of a white bird perched atop a rock in front of blue waves crashing in. The white bird has an orange beak with a black wattle and Tertials
New featured picture: User:Benjamint444's photograph of the Nazca Booby on its breeding island in the Galapagos
The same user's photograph of the Common Imperial Blue Butterfly, also promoted last week

Seven images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":

Photograph of a large white animal head with two brownish horns sticking out from its snout.
New featured picture: Black Rhinoceros skull, collected in southern Africa in the 19th century and now housed in the Gallery of Paleontology and Compared Anatomy, National Museum of Natural History, Paris


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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Just a note for the next edition, it's conceivable that we'll hit 2000 featured lists. We're at 1995 at the moment, and last week's number of promotions was lower than usual. —WFC— 14:58, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You don't show all the FP's?  :( TCO (talk) 23:14, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The window is from Saturday to Friday, end midnight UTC. Did we miss any? Tony (talk) 07:53, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You discuss seven FPs in text, but only show four of them as images.

TCO (talk) 08:01, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

TCO, it's a great map, but we can't possibly show all. We will endeavour to show a map in the future. I removed it from here. Link is above for readers who wish to see it. Tony (talk) 08:12, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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