Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-08-23/Features and admins

The best of the week

Administrators

The Signpost congratulates four editors on their promotion to adminship.

• Theunicyclegirl
  , who has been with us since July 2006. She is an active vandal-fighter, contributes to AfDs, and helps with the backlog of unreferenced articles.
• Nev1 (nom), a prolific content contributor in areas related to Greater Manchester. This was Nev1's second successful RfA; he passed his first
  in 2008, but voluntarily gave up the tools in January 2010. Nev1 could have been re-promoted without going through an RfA, but believed "it would not be honest to claim an extant mandate from two years ago".
• Jmh649 (nom), a Canadian emergency physician. "Doc James" (his signed name) has been active since July 2008, and a substantial contributor to important medical articles; these include obesity, gout, and streptococcal pharyngitis
  (commonly known as strep throat).
• Fainites (nom), a Wikipedian since December 2006, has been a productive editor in the often-fraught subject of psychology. He is a primary contributor to three featured articles in the topic: reactive attachment disorder, Rudolf Wolters, and attachment theory.

Featured articles

Seventeen articles were promoted to featured status:

• Underground Electric Railways Company of London (nom), the holding company for the lines opened during 1906 and 1907; they survived dodgy financing and over-optimistic passenger estimates to become the dominant transport organization in London (nominated by DavidCane).
• National Anthem of Russia (nom), adopted in December 2000. Alexander Alexandrov wrote the music, and Sergey Mikhalkov the lyrics (the melody had been used for the Soviet anthem) (Zscout370
  ).
• Stephens City, Virginia (nom), with a population of 1,500, was just south of the boundary between union and confederate states and was adjacent to a major free black community before the Civil War. It narrowly escaped torching by Union forces during the Civil War. (Neutralhomer)
• Visionholder, with taxonomic assistance from Ucucha
  ). (sound file above)
• Dincher and Ruhrfisch
  ).
• Bull Run River (Oregon) (nom), a tributary of the Sandy River in Oregon. It is the primary source of drinking water for the city of Portland, Oregon (Finetooth). (picture at the right)
• Mount Cayley volcanic field (nom), a remote volcanic zone on the Coast of British Columbia. The name comes from Mount Cayley, the largest and most persistent volcano in the zone (Volcanoguy).
• TheRetroGuy and PaulLargo
  ).
• "
  GageSkidmore
  ).
• DrKiernan
  ).
• 90377 Sedna (nom), an astronomical object, about two-thirds the size of Pluto, which currently lies about three times as far from the Sun as the outermost planet, Neptune, and takes about 12,000 years to orbit the Sun (Kheider and Serendipodous).
• Mark Tonelli (nom), an Australian Olympic swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s. He successfully lobbied for the right of Australian Olympians to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics despite the government's wish to boycott it to protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; he was stripped of the captaincy of the national team for poor behaviour (YellowMonkey).
• Acra (fortress) (nom), a fortified compound in Jerusalem of the 2nd century BCE. (Astynax and Poliocretes)
• British Museum Project (Captmondo and Andrew Dalby
  ). (picture at right)
• Hotel Chevalier (nom), a 13-minute English-language film released in 2007 (Skomorokh).
• Thomasomys ucucha (nom), "a little rodent from Ecuador with a nice name", according to nominator Ucucha.
• Iridescent
  's "eating disorders of the French Revolutionary Wars" mini-series, in which a Polish soldier was captured by the British and subjected to a bizarre dietary experiment.

Choice of the week. The Signpost asked FA nominator and reviewer

Featured lists

Nine lists were promoted:

• 1992 Winter Olympics medal table (nom), the count of medals won by participating IOCs at the 1992 Winter Olympics, held in Albertville, France. Germany won the most overall medals (26) and gold medals (10) (nominated by Courcelles and Sonia).
• Kelly Rowland discography (nom). Rowland's debut album, Simply Deep, topped the UK charts, and her single "Dilemma" (with Nelly) was certified platinum three times in Australia (Lil-unique1)
• List of Watford F.C. seasons (nom). Formed as Watford Rovers in 1881, Watford has won their league knockout competition twice since 1896 (WFCforLife, HornetEd and Bazj).
• Hugo Award for Best Related Work (nom), an annual prize given primarily for non-fiction works related to science fiction or fantasy (PresN).
• List of number-one singles from the 1980s (UK) (nom). Madonna had six of her singles top the chart in this decade—more than any other artist during that decade. (Rambo's Revenge
  )
• List of accolades received by Up in the Air (nom). The film won 65 awards from 155 nominations, including a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, and a BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Dan Dassow, JuneGloom07, and Courcelles).
• Timeline of the 1990–91 South Pacific cyclone season (nom) Only two tropical cyclones occurred in the South Pacific—Cyclone Joy and Cyclone Sina—both of which were retired after this season (Anhamirak and Jason Rees).
• Friends of Friendless Churches (nom), a registered charity in England and Wales that campaigns for and rescues redundant historic churches threatened by demolition, decay, or inappropriate conversion. The oldest church owned by the charity is St Peter's Church, Wickham Bishops, an 11th-century private chapel for the Bishops of London, now used as an art studio (Peter I. Vardy).
• List of Colorado Rockies first-round draft picks (nom). Of the 25 players selected in the first round by the Rockies, 16 have been pitchers, the most of any position; of these, 11 have been right-handed and 5 left-handed (Courcelles). (picture at the right)

Choice of the week. We asked FL nominator and reviewer Chrishomingtang, who specializes in basketball-related topics, for his choice: "I picked List of Watford F.C. seasons as my favorite. The lead flows well and clearly explains the team's history. The table looks great and every abbreviation is explained in the key section. The entire list is well-referenced and well-illustrated by relevant images."

Featured pictures