Three cheers for featured pictures!: Five articles, six lists, and nine pictures were promoted to 'featured' status last week on the English Wikipedia.
Roy Phillipps(
nominated by
Ian Rose) was an Australian
fighter ace of World War I. He achieved fifteen victories in aerial combat, four of them in a single action over France on 12 June 1918. A
grazier between the wars, Phillipps joined the
Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 and was killed in a plane crash the following year. This is the second article on an Australian World War I ace that Ian has taken to Featured status this year.
Head VI(
nominated by
Ceoil) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist
Francis Bacon, the last of six panels making up his "1949 Head" series. It shows a bust view of a single figure, modelled on
Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X. It was the first of Bacon's paintings to reference the Velázquez, a portrait that was to haunt him throughout his career, and was the beginning of his sequence of "screaming popes". In his nomination statement, Ceoil confessed "this painting has fascinated and unnerved me for 25 years".
Cuban macaw(
nominated by
FunkMonk), also known as the Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor), was a species of
macaw native to the main island of
Cuba and the nearby
Isla de la Juventud that went extinct in the late 19th century. It may have been closely related to the
scarlet macaw and the
Jamaican red macaw. No modern skeletons are known, but a few
subfossil remains have been found. This is the second of FunkMonk's articles on extinct birds to reach Featured status this year.
Anachronox(
nominated by
GamerPro64 and
ZeaLitY) is a third-person
role-playing video game produced by
Tom Hall and the Dallas
Ion Storm games studio, released in 2001. It centers on Sylvester "Sly Boots" Bucelli, a down-and-out
private investigator who looks for work in the slums of Anachronox, a once-abandoned planet near the galaxy's
jumpgate hub. He travels to other planets, amasses an unlikely group of friends, and unravels a mystery that threatens the fate of the universe. This is GamerPro64's first Featured Article.
SS Arctic disaster(
nominated by
Brianboulton). The
paddle steamerSS Arctic, owned by the
Collins Line of New York, sank on September 27, 1854, after a collision with the much smaller
SS Vesta 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of
Newfoundland. Passenger and crew lists indicate that there were probably more than 400 on board; of these, only 88 survived, of whom most were members of the crew. All the women and children on board perished. Brian was inspired to develop the article after coming across the book Women and Children Last in a second-hand store.
Premio Lo Nuestro 2013(
nominated by
Javier Espinoza) The
Lo Nuestro Awards (Spanish for "Our Thing") honor the best Latin music in the United States and are presented by the American television network
Univision. The 2013 ceremony took place in February at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, and awards were presented in 33 categories. The ceremony was hosted by the Mexican performers
Ninel Conde and
Pedro Fernández.
Braxton Bragg(unknown creator, restored and
nominated by
Adam Cuerden) When looking at the
American Civil War, we're pretty good at documenting the Union side, but, before this photo, we had never had a featured picture of a single Confederate soldier. The photographs of
Robert E. Lee being extremely damaged, I decided to start with General
Braxton Bragg, one of the main commanders in the
Western Theater, and military advisor to Confederate President
Jefferson Davis.
Fanny Bullock Workman(created by Maull & Fox, restored and
nominated by
Adam Cuerden)Fanny Bullock Workman was one of
Adrianne Wadewitz's last articles; those of us who knew her are working to bring it up to featured article. Part of that is image improvement. Workman was a feminist, mountain climber, travel writer, geographer, explorer, and suffragette who did most of her work before World War I. It's not hard to see why Adrianne - a feminist academic and mountain climber with an interest travel writings and the interaction between cultures - was attracted to her.
The
Pont du Gard, the highest of all Roman aqueduct bridges, beautifully photographed from a well-chosen angle by
Benh Lieu Song.
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Beautiful work Ian Rose, SchroCat and Adam Cuerden. -- Pine ✉ 06:42, 13 July 2014 (UTC) reply
Thanks for mentioning the fact that Anachronox was my first Featured Article (and hopefully not the last). It should be noted that the nomination was co-nom'd by User:Zeality, who helped set the ground work for getting the article to where it is now. GamerPro64 18:20, 13 July 2014 (UTC) reply