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Goings-on in the week starting Sunday,October 25,2015

Articles that gained featured status

• Assassination of Spencer Perceval (31 Oct)
• Æthelwulf (31 Oct)
• "Ice" (The X-Files) (31 Oct)
• Schmerber v. California (31 Oct)
• Yugoslav submarineNebojša (31 Oct)
• Hebron Church (Intermont, West Virginia) (31 Oct)
• Arnold Bax (31 Oct)
• Frank Jenner (31 Oct)

Lists that gained featured status

• List of local nature reserves in Somerset (26 Oct)
• List of international cricket centuries by Ian Bell (26 Oct)
• List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium (26 Oct)
• List of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club grounds (26 Oct)
• List of international goals scored by Thierry Henry (26 Oct)
• List of songs recorded by Lady Gaga (29 Oct)

Pictures that gained featured status

• Map of Isla Margarita (25 Oct)
• Renée Adorée (25 Oct)
• Twenty Czechoslovak koruna (25 Oct)
• Fifty Czechoslovak koruna (25 Oct)
• One-hundred Czechoslovak koruna (25 Oct)
• One-thousand Czechoslovak koruna (25 Oct)
• Calliphora vicina head (26 Oct)
• Anne Vallayer-Coster (26 Oct)
• Hunter's Home (26 Oct)
• Two-decimes coin, obverse-only strike (26 Oct)
• Two-decimes coin, reverse-only strike (26 Oct)
• Two-decimes coin, dual-sided strike (26 Oct)
• Streetseller displaying chickpeas (27 Oct)
• Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (27 Oct)
• Flyer forPahit-Pahit Manis (27 Oct)
• Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness (27 Oct)
• Portrait of Francis Bacon (27 Oct)
• Ten Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• Twenty Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• Twenty-five Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• Fifty Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• One-hundred Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• Five-hundred Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• One-thousand Danzig gulden (27 Oct)
• Allegory of Prudence (27 Oct)
• Indian vultures (28 Oct)
• Wooded landscape in Estonia (28 Oct)
• Fifty French Polynesian centimes (28 Oct)
• One French Polynesian franc (28 Oct)
• Two French Polynesian franc (28 Oct)
• Two-and-a-half French Polynesian franc (28 Oct)
• Marsh wren (29 Oct)
• Chrysopa perla (29 Oct)
• Allen Ginsberg (29 Oct)
• One Prince Edward Island dollar (29 Oct)
• Two Prince Edward Island dollar (29 Oct)
• Five Prince Edward Island dollar (29 Oct)
• Ten Prince Edward Island dollar (29 Oct)
• Twenty Prince Edward Island dollar (29 Oct)
• Sneezing (30 Oct)
• Ixion (30 Oct)
• One-million mark (30 Oct)
• Ten-million mark (30 Oct)
• One-hundred-million mark (30 Oct)
• Five-hundred-million mark (30 Oct)
• Five-billion mark (30 Oct)
• Ten-billion mark (30 Oct)
• Liguus virgineus (31 Oct)
• Half-union (J-1546) (31 Oct)
• Half-union (J-1548) (31 Oct)
• Japanese military currency (31 Oct)
• Two Lovers (31 Oct)

Portals that gained featured status

• Latin music (25 Oct)

Topics that gained featured status

• Wikipedia:News, for other news sources
• Wikipedia:Milestones, for important milestones, statistics and Alexa ranking news concerning the English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Signpost, for a more complete overview of Wikipedia news
• Wikipedia:Article traffic jumps, for an anecdotal gauge of reader traffic.
• Wikizine, for global Wikimedia news
• Meta goings-on, for inter-language and other meta projects