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Features and admins
- By RoyBoy, December 12, 2005
BD2412 shatters support record
BD2412 received an astonishing 183 support votes on his request for adminship. The previous record was Func, whose August RFA drew 112 support votes. Neither user was opposed.
Administrators
Fifteen users were granted admin status this week: Kbh3rd (nom), Gurubrahma (nom), Andrew Norman (nom), BD2412 (nom), WikiFanatic (nom), Thebainer (nom), Extreme Unction (nom), Awolf002 (nom), Luigi30 (nom), SCEhardt (nom), NSLE (nom), Pathoschild (nom), JWSchmidt (nom), TShilo12 (nom) and Lbmixpro (nom).
Featured content
Eight articles were featured this week: Butter, The Waterboys, Game theory, Voting system, Ido, Marilyn Manson, Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Xanadu House, which was finally featured after four nominations.
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the main page as Today's featured article: Roy Orbison, Michel Foucault, Waterfall Gully, Mandan, Hugo Chávez, History of the Jews in Poland and Yuan.
Two lists reached featured list status this week: List of Presidents of Venezuela and List of London Underground stations.
Three pictures reached featured picture status this week:
Also this week: Editor's note — Media circus — ArbCom update — News and notes — Features and admins — B.R.I.O.N. — T.R.O.L.L.
