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Approved this week

Administrators

Three editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Killervogel5 (nom), MrKIA11 (nom) and SpacemanSpiff (nom).

Featured pages

Six articles were promoted to

No articles were delisted this week.

One list was delisted this week: List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality (nom).

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Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Albino wallaby, Battle of Jerusalem, Zhong Kui, Red Delicious apples, S. bercaea, Red Wattlebird and Mount Redoubt.

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Four featured

Fifteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

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  Common Wombat
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  Red-necked Wallaby
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  Execution of conspirators in the

  assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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  Phases of the moon
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  Canon EOS 400D
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  Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio
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  Napa Valley
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  Maria Island
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  Dunrobin Castle
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  Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire
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  Dust Devil

  trails on Mars
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  River Thames
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  Cape Barren Goose
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  Desiccation cracks in mud
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  World War I poster in Yiddish

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• This week's FP promotions and delistings do a good job of illustrating the welcome rise in standards not only in photography and images, but in Wikipedia standards altogether over the years. It's encouraging to see steady improvement despite all the auspices of doom and gloom people have been muttering about the project. Seegoon (talk) 18:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]