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Features and admins
- By RoyBoy and Spangineer, May 8, 2006
Administrators
The latest admin to become a bureaucrat is Taxman (nom).
Eight users were granted admin status last week: FloNight (nom), Silsor (nom), AndyZ (nom), Snoutwood (nom), Saravask (nom), RadioKirk (nom), Lar (nom) and JoshuaZ (nom).
Featured content
Seven articles were featured last week: Cædmon (nom), Nellie Kim (nom), Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (nom), Illmatic (nom), Mercury (planet) (nom), 2005 Atlantic hurricane season (nom) and Defense of Sihang Warehouse (nom). Two articles were de-featured: Strategic management and Weather lore.
2005 Atlantic hurricane season is the 8th FA by the Tropical cyclones WikiProject, and the 4th tropical storm related FA by Titoxd. Worldtraveller produced yet another astronomy related FA with Mercury. Bunchofgrapes has diverged from recent food related FAs (Cheese, Butter, and Black pepper) to successfully nominate Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Starship Troopers, Bangalore, Chew Valley Lake, Albatross, Solar eclipse, Gerald Ford and Rabindranath Tagore.
These were the pictures of the day last week: White's Tree Frog, Airplane vortex, Apache Wickiup, Nez Perce, Navy binoculars, Cows in green field and Montreal Twilight Panorama.
Two pictures reached featured picture status last week:
Also this week: Rankings update — M.A.N.I.A. — News and notes — Press coverage — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.
