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A week for marine creatures

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By Tony1 and Dabomb87
Featured picture Choice of the week, "White-spotted jellyfish", one of two new FPs of marine creatures by Wikipedian Nick Hobgood. It averages 45–50 cm in bell diameter, but grows to larger sizes in the Gulf of Mexico, where it has become an invasive species that is a potential threat to shrimp and fish populations. Read the judge's reasons and Nick's comments below.

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The Signpost welcomes Looie496 (nom) as our newest admin. Looie496 is a neuroscientist who specialises in learning and memory, with a focus on the hippocampus; many of his publications have involved theta rhythm. He has been contributing since April 2008, and since then has co-maintained WikiProject Neuroscience. More recently, Looie496 has been involved in an effort sponsored by the American Society for Neuroscience to encourage more scientists to contribute to Wikipedia. He is interested in dispute resolution, and has participated at ANI, WQA, and various other noticeboards, with an eye to contributing to AIV, UAA, and RPP.

The "bleeding tooth fungus", from new featured article Hydnellum peckii. The "teeth" covering the cap's underside are specialised spore-producing structures.
Four articles were promoted to featured status. These articles will be considered next week by the judge for Choice of the week.
  • Typhoon Sudal (nom) (2004), the strongest storm to hit the Pacific island of Yap in half a century, causing major damage to property but no loss of life (nominated by Hurricanehink)
  • Bring Us Together (nom), one of Richard Nixon's political slogans, and another article in the ongoing series prepared by Wehwalt on this American politician.
  • Hydnellum peckii (nom), the "bleeding tooth fungus", aka "strawberries and cream": it looks like candy, but doesn't taste like it, says nominator Sasata. (picture at right)
  • Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (nom), an individualistic and colourful sportsman, known for his habit of fielding at point blank range to intimidate opposition batsmen. He once spent three weeks in hospital after taking a hit in the chest by a ball (YellowMonkey).

Four featured articles were delisted:

A man in red academic robes sitting in a chair with a city scene visible through a window
Philip Bliss, Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University from 1826 to 1857, from the eponymous FL Choice of the week
Five lists were promoted:

Choice of the week. We asked FL nominator PresN for his/her choice of the best. The choice is from both last week plus the three new FLs from the week before:

"Out of the five lists from this week and the three from the previous week, I'm going to go with Keeper of the Archives from last week. I found it interesting and informative on a subject that was a bit further outside the mainstream than most Featured Lists. I would have suspected any article about a subject going back to the 1600s to be scanty on sources and information, but found quite the opposite with this article. I probably shouldn't have been surprised that Oxford kept good records on their record-keeping position!"

One featured list was delisted:

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian renaissance man and Nobel laureate
Bright-eyed, open-mouthed Loliginid squid
Ten images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom".

Choice of the week. DerHexer is a regular reviewer and nominator at Common’s featured picture candidates. He told The Signpost:



User:Diliff's photograph of Casa Milà in Barcelona, Spain, by the great modernist architect Antoni Gaudí—from the newly featured List of World Heritage Sites in Spain
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Thoroughly exciting and enjoyable read! I still think, though, that it would be even better if the weekly stories would discuss whether or not any delisted FAs/FIs appeared on the Main Page, and when. Otherwise, great! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:49, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted? I thought only featured content appeared on the main page. We do try to keep a cap on the length of the page, since The Signpost is already a pretty long read, and we like to leave the readers wanting more—that way they're more likely to return next week. We struggle a bit with the very fiddly job of copying over the links, noms, and blurbs, inviting judges, and the time-consuming task of selecting and locating the images. Although it is very satisfying to prepare pages that highlight the work of our talented users, we would be pleased if one or two more editors wanted to be in the team to share the workload. Tony (talk) 05:36, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We are short on hands everywhere. ResMar 21:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Since the TFA is mentioned on every TFA's talk page, it would not be difficult, I think to put in parenthesis (Today's featured article on January 4, 2005) next to the delisted articles that were TFA at one time.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:45, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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