Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-21/Featured content
Featured content
A more balanced week
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 11 to 17 October.
Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.
Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.
Featured articles
Academy Award for Best Directing for his work on Brokeback Mountain
Ten featured articles were promoted this week.
- In Our Time (nominated by Victoriaearle) is Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright in New York. The stories' themes continue the work Hemingway began with the vignettes, which include descriptions of acts of war, bullfighting and current events.
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption (nominated by Darkwarriorblake) is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Nihilistic Software and released by Activision. The player controls Christof and up to three allies through a linear structure, providing the player with missions to progress through a set narrative.
- R8R Gtrs) is a superheavy artificial chemical element with an atomic number of 117 and a temporary symbol of Uus. It is the second-heaviest known element and second-to-last element of the 7th period of the periodic table. As of 2015, fifteen ununseptium atoms have been synthesized.
- ) is a 1894 ceramic sculpture by French artist Paul Gauguin. Art historians have presented multiple interpretations of the work; usually that he intended it as an epithet to reinforce his self-image as a "civilised savage".
- St Denys' Church, Sleaford (nominated by Noswall59) is a medieval parish church in Sleaford, England. The exact date of the present building's construction is unknown. The oldest parts are the tower and spire, which date back to the late 12th and early 13th centuries; the stone broach spire is one of the earliest examples of its kind in England. The church is a Grade I listed building.
- SMS Prinz Adalbert (nominated by Parsecboy) was an armored cruiser built in the early 1900s for the German Kaiserliche Marine, and named after Prince Adalbert of Prussia. It served as a gunnery training ship, a role she held for the majority of her career. After the outbreak of World War I, she was assigned to the reconnaissance forces in the Baltic and was tasked with protecting the German coast from Russian attacks.
- Trout Creek Mountains (nominated by Jsayre64) is a remote, semi-arid Great Basin mountain range mostly in southeastern Oregon and partially in northern Nevada. Oriented generally north to south, the Trout Creek Mountains consist primarily of fault blocks of basalt, which came from an ancient volcano and other vents, on top of older metamorphic rocks. The southern end of the range, however, features many granitic outcrops.
- Apatosaurus (nominated by IJReid and LittleJerry) is a genus of extinct sauropod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. It had an average length of 22.8 meters, and an average mass of at least 16.4 tonnes.
- Boroughitis (nominated by Wehwalt) was a political phenomenon in the American state of New Jersey in the 1890s. Attempts by the New Jersey Legislature to reform local government and the school systems led to the formation of dozens of low-population boroughs, communities small in area that still balkanize the state's political map.
- "R U Professional" (nominated by Cirt) is a 2009 satirical song by the American indie rock band the Mae Shi, inspired by a July 2008 outburst by actor Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation. The song had a generally positive reception, and was praised as an effective parody of Bale's on-set disturbance.
Featured lists
Three featured lists were promoted this week.
- List of awards and nominations received by American Horror Story (nominated by GagaNutella) American Horror Story is a horror anthology television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle, and end". It has won 40 awards out of 179 nominations, including thirteen Emmy and one Golden Globe.
- List of accolades received by Brokeback Mountain (nominated by Johanna) Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American epic romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee. The film depicts the complex emotional and sexual relationship between two men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, in the American West between 1963 and 1983. It has won 85 awards out of 137 nominations, including three Academy Awards.
- List of Millennium characters (nominated by Grapple X) Millennium is a crime-thriller television series which was broadcast from 1996 to 1999. Created by Chris Carter, the series aired on Fox for three seasons with a total of sixty-seven episodes. It starred Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Klea Scott and Brittany Tiplady. Henriksen played Frank Black, an offender profiler for the Millennium Group.
Featured pictures
Twenty-five featured pictures were promoted this week.
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Discuss this story
Nice work, Armbrust. And Godot13 is doing a great job too in the numismatic field. However, I do wonder whether in this context one might choose just a portion of the freshly promoted images of banknotes and coins, given that the nominator is prolific week after week. These images are tending to swamp the other new FPs on this page. You might consider casting a fine eye over the week's numismatic and banknote promotions, selecting what you (or indeed Godot13, by email?) consider the best representatives. I think readers and other successful FP nominators might like that too. It's just a suggestion—what do you think? Best, and thanks. Tony (talk) 03:43, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]