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Approved this week

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Maunus (nom) and Jake Wartenberg (nom).

Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: Big Star (band) (nom), Lisa the Vegetarian (nom), Synthetic diamond (nom), Operation Charnwood (nom), Ancient Egyptian literature (nom), To Autumn (nom), Keith Johnson (cricket administrator) (nom), Convoy GP55 (nom), James Newland (nom), John Lerew (nom), Samlesbury witches (nom), Hurricane Bob (1985) (nom), Fungus (nom) and James Nesbitt (nom).

Four lists were promoted to featured status this week: Order of battle at the Battle of San Domingo (nom), National Film Registry (nom), List of 250cc Motorcycle World Champions (nom) and List of new churches by John Douglas (nom).

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Emperor Penguin, Harry Murray, Gangtok, Zinc, Noël Coward, Candide and Edward Wright.

Eleven articles were delisted this week: Pneumonia (nom), Voter turnout (nom), Sikhism (nom), BBC television drama (nom), Black Seminoles (nom), Whitstable (nom), Blitzkrieg (nom), Microsoft Data Access Components (nom), Triumph of the Will (nom), History of Arizona (nom) and Music of Nigeria (nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Bird-and-flower painting, Grampians National Park, Phobos, Stereogram, Protesters in Dar es Salaam, Redeye cicada and Keble college.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Twenty-four pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

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  Parliament House, Canberra
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  The Coronation of Napoleon
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  Gawthorpe Hall
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  The Canterville Ghost
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  Canna hybrida
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  An Ideal Husband
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  Derwent Water
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  Creedite
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  Malachite
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  Amethyst
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  The Story of the Mikado, by W. S. Gilbert
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  Australian Magpie
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  Dún Laoghaire
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  Comic of William Henry Smith in Punch magazine
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  Pride and Prejudice
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  Belfast
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  Azurite
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  Quartz
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  Chlorophyllum rhacodes
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  Silver
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  Bromine
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  Mytilus edulis
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  Pegesimallus sp.
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  John Quincy Adams

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