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By Dabomb87 and Tony1
From new Featured list List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem): The Snake River, with the Grand Tetons in the background. Photo by Ansel Adams.
This week's "Features and admins" covers Sunday 3 – Saturday 9 April

Administrators

No editors were granted administrator status this week.

At the time of publication there was one live RfA: Bahamut0013, due to finish Wednesday.

From the new FA, conservation of slow lorises. Slow lorises are nocturnal primates that live in south and southeast Asia, and are threatened by deforestation and the wildlife trade.
An 1823 painting by Stephen Poyntz Denning of the young Alexandrina Victoria, later Queen Victoria, the ruler of the British Empire at its peak

A total of 13 articles were promoted to featured status:

  • SMS Markgraf (nom), a König-class battleship of the German Imperial Navy which served during World War I. (Nominated by Parsecboy)
  • U.S. Route 113 (nom), a 75-mile (121 km) road in the U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware. (Viridiscalculus)
  • Conservation of slow lorises (nom), an effort that has received significant recent publicity after online videos of the species gained popularity. (Visionholder)
  • Tom Driberg (nom), a former gossip columnist who became the British Labour Party chairman. (Brianboulton)
  • Rosendale trestle (nom), a continuous truss bridge in the U.S. state of New York. It was sold for one dollar to a man who unsuccessfully attempted to operate it as a bungee jumping platform. (Gyrobo)
  • Maya (M.I.A. album) (nom), an electronica album incorporating elements of industrial music, by British-Tamil artist M.I.A. who prefers to spell its title as "/\/\ /\ Y /\", allegedly to avoid its detection in Internet search engines. (ChrisTheDude)
  • 1911 Atlantic hurricane season (nom), a relatively inactive season. (Juliancolton)
  • La Stazione (nom), a former train station in upstate New York that was later converted into an Italian restaurant. (Gyrobo)
  • Galápagos tortoise (nom); with a lifespan in captivity of up to 170 years, it is one of the longest-lived vertebrates. (Minglex, TCO, DrKiernan, Mike Searson and NYMFan69-86)
  • Shakespeare authorship question (nom); concerning the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works traditionally attributed to him, considered a fringe belief by most scholars and historians. Until recently the subject of an arbitration case (Signpost coverage), the article includes mention of itself, citing a reliable source's judgement that Wikipedia's coverage of the authorship controversy "puts to shame anything that ever appeared in standard resources". A blog dedicated to alternative theories protested against the FA promotion, claiming it was "effectively closing the page to any further edits for a year" and represented "inaccurate and unjustified bias against all discussion of the Shakepseare [sic] authorship question". (Tom Reedy, Paul Barlow, Nishidani and Xover)
  • Fantastic Adventures (nom), an American pulp science fiction magazine published from 1939 to 1953. (Mike Christie)
  • Queen Victoria (nom), the longest-reigning female monarch in history. She ruled during a period of monumental change in the United Kingdom and British Empire. (DrKiernan)
  • Akodon spegazzinii (nom), a species of rodent found in northwestern Argentina. (Ucucha)

Two featured articles were delisted:

New featured picture: An inner view of a Seagate 3.5-inch hard disk drive, manufactured in Malaysia in 1998.

Three lists were promoted:

Four featured lists were delisted:

The internal anatomy of a video webcam is exposed in this industrial CT scan.
The Black-winged Stilt, with long pink legs, and a long thin black bill

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

Three sound files were promoted:

  • Overture on Hebrew Themes (nom; related article); Written on commission for the Jewish ensemble Simro, it uses the unusual combination of clarinet, string quartet, and piano. Performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra in 2009.
  • Fireside Chat 1 On the Banking Crisis (nom; related article), one of U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's famous evening radio speeches during the Great Depression. He reassured worried American citizens and appealed to them to support his agenda.
  • Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech (nom; related article), another speech by Roosevelt, this time addressed to the newly seated 77th United States Congress as his State of the Union address. It expressed fundamental universal rights that went beyond those expressed in the United States Constitution.
The Svyato Mikhailovsky Cathedral in Ischewsk, Republic of Udmurtia in Russia
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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This Ansel Adams character should contribute more photos. He does good work. JKBrooks85 (talk) 06:30, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

humor intended
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