The Signpost welcomes Vejvančický (nom) as our newest admin. Vejvančický, from the Czech Republic, has more than 16,000 edits and two and a half years' experience in a wide range of areas, including new-page patrolling, and our currently backlogged speedy deletion and AfD processes. He has an impressive list of mostly Czech-related pages he is working towards creating at the English Wikipedia.
Choice of the week. The Signpost asked FA nominator and reviewer Jimfbleak to select the best newly promoted article from this week's offerings, together with the four promotions last week.
| “ | My benchmark for the quality of a Wikipedia article is whether I find myself reading from start to finish an article on a subject of which I know nothing; all ten of these FAs passed that test. It was interesting to discover that it seems to have been perfectly acceptable for a teacher in Nixon's America to enrol her charges as political cheerleaders, although less of a surprise to find that Yorkshire cricketers can be nearly as irascible as their Australian counterparts.
Jersey Act, perfidious Albion at work again, was a small but perfectly formed example of what a good collaboration should be, and Bring Us Together was a fascinating peek into the US of 40 years ago. However, overall I was torn between two of the five biographies, Francis Tresham and Barnes. For me, Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 edges it, if only because it's harder to write well about something as intrinsically boring as cricket than it is for a gunpowder plotter! |
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Choice of the week. We asked FL nominator AngChenrui for his choice of the best:
| “ | Tough choice really, considering that almost all the featured lists have to do with pop culture and sports. I found List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy—an exception here—highly informative and well-written. List of Best in Show winners of Crufts was a good read as well, since its not everyday that you hear about championship-winning dogs. I liked the last two in the list above; I suppose many of us here can identify with the music listed there. However, Choice of the week goes to Gordon Bennett Cup (ballooning) for me. The Cup is the oldest gas balloon race in the world, as you would find out, and the article sure piqued my curiosity. In this age of technology and faster-than-sound travel, it is a pleasure to be reading about slower-cruising aerial vehicles. Of course the competition is not without incident too; last month's race saw the disappearance of two Americans, both of whom were never found. | ” |
Choice of the week. Nergaal, a regular reviewer and nominator at featured picture candidates, told The Signpost: "A good variety of pictures was promoted to featured status this week, but in the end, the choice is a pretty obvious one. It is rare that the project receives a donation of a high-quality artefact such as a copy of the original 1842 manuscript of Chopin's Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53, for solo piano. It is a high-quality scan of the score of one of the most popular compositions by Chopin. The composer's own autograph is visible in the top right corner of the page. Notable mentions are well deserved by other two promotions: the colorful animated projection of a whole-body PET scan, as well as another historic image, taken by Voyager in 1986 of the seventh planet."
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That rotating image thing is defintiely messing with my head. 67.220.5.154 (talk) 02:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Here's how to switch: watch the chin; when it comes around closer to you, you need to reconceptualise it as on the far side. Tony (talk) 05:15, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Wow, do we have a Wikipedia article explaining this optical illusion? I found that closing my eyes momentarily and reopening them often "reset" my brain into thinking that the image was rotating in the other direction. — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 08:12, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Scarily, i found the body rotating one way, the "innards" the other, at the same time. Awkward. Great image, though. Cheers, LindsayHi 08:59, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- That would make me very dizzy. You could earn lots of money as a medical subject. :-) Tony (talk) 09:02, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- You can look to The Spinning Dancer, Jacklee. bahamut0013wordsdeeds 17:11, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, that was an interesting article! — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:29, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- After staring at the rotating image for 15 minutes I looked down at the Sea Egg image and its spines started growing! -- Ϫ 09:49, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On a completely different note, I just thought that congratulations should go J Milburn for nominating an article for deletion and when the result was keep, instead of thinking "oh well, bugger it", actually doing the hard yards and getting it to FA. A remarkable effort. Jenks24 (talk) 16:14, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]