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Features and admins

Birds and insects

New administrator

The Signpost welcomes Panyd (nom) from the UK as our newest admin. She has editorial experience in a number of areas, including OTRS, BLP sourcing, deletion work, random page patrol, and content editing.

Featured articles

From the new featured article, Lincoln cent: the public lines up to buy the new issue outside the Sub-Treasury Building in New York City in 1909; the file is humorously entitled "Centsless people".

From the new featured article, Biddenden Maids: an 1808 woodcut of the apparently conjoined maids, associated with an unusual English tradition

New featured picture, Noodle snacks's Pink Robin, photographed in Mount Field National Park, in inland Tasmania

Three articles were promoted to featured status. These will be added to next week's promotions for the Choice of the week.

Lincoln cent (nom), the fourth in Wehwalt's numismatics series. He says, "The Lincoln cent may not be worth the zinc it's struck on today, but upon release, thousands of people lined up across the country to get it.... there's an interesting story behind it."
Biddenden Maids (nom), One of the more bizarre surviving remnants of old English folk tradition. Nominator Iridescent says, "Each year at Easter, the elderly and widows of the small town of Biddenden (and a large crowd of tourists) gather for a free handout of bread, cheese, tea and biscuits imprinted with a picture of conjoined twins, in a ceremony which has gone on for at least 300 and possibly as many as 900 years."
Canadian heraldry (nom), an interesting hybrid tradition. Nominator (Roux says, "Derived mainly from heraldic traditions in France and the United Kingdom, Canadian heraldry incorporates distinctly Canadian symbols, especially native flora and fauna, references to the First Nations and other aboriginal peoples of Canada."

Featured lists

In the past two weeks, ten lists were promoted:

1st Academy Awards (nom) (nominated by Tbhotch)
List of Cincinnati Reds Opening Day starting pitchers (nom) (Rlendog and Wizardman)
List of Fab 40 number-one singles (nom) (Rambo's Revenge)
Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist (nom) (Jaespinoza and Another Believer)
List of songs in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (nom) (Masem)
List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves recipients (1940–1941) (nom) (MisterBee1966)
Jessica Simpson discography (nom) (Novice7)
2010 New Zealand Music Awards (nom) (Adabow)
List of Buso Renkin episodes (nom) (DragonZero)
Jesse Owens Award (nom) (The Rambling Man)

Featured pictures

A violet black-legged robber fly (*Dioctria atricapilla*)

Five images were promoted. These will be added to next week's promotions for the Choice of the week. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":

Violet black-legged robber fly (nom), or Dioctria atricapilla (created by Richard Bartz).
Superb Fairywren (nom), or Malurus cyaneus (Noodle snacks) The nomination survived complaints about the bird's anus ("a little too front and center").
Pink Robin (nom), or Petroica rodinogaster. Noodle snacks said "I've spent many hours trying to get a Pink Robin photo. They are shy birds and don't usually make any noise, so are difficult to spot.... This is to be expected for a temperate rainforest bird." The photo was taken in technically challenging conditions (1/10 sec wide open at iso 1600) (picture at right).
Beautiful Demoiselle (nom), or Calopteryx virgo (Richard Bartz; picture at right).
Mallard (nom; link to article), showing marked differences between male and female (Richard Bartz; picture below).

The Mallard, the archetypal "wild duck" and probably the best-known and most recognizable of all ducks, is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and sub-tropical areas of North America, Europe, Asia, New Zealand (where it is currently the most common duck species), and Australia.

Information about new admins at the top is drawn from their user pages and RfA texts, and occasionally from what they tell us directly.

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Superb fairywren pic is missing :(

The featured pics are all bugs and birds! —Angr (talk) 14:42, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Gave us the title of the page this week: an in-built theme. It's been a lean week for featured content ... Thanksgiving? Tony (talk) 15:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm starting to suspect that Noodle Snacks can speak to birds and insects. Tell us, Mr. Snacks, how do you say "Hold still while I take your picture" in the language of the Pink Robin? Jason Quinn (talk) 23:59, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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