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  Geoffroy's tamarin byCharles J. Sharp, one of our newestfeatured pictures.

Well, here we are! Yet another featured content. This one's meant to come out - and of late that's actually meant something for once – on the 17th, which isWorld Day for International Justice. We'll find out in ... two issues, I believe (we work about a fortnight behind so we actually have time before publication to write things, but that'sjust past the cutoff for next issue), whether or not that resulted in any featured content of note.

It's alsoWorld Emoji Day, but 🖕 to that. Anyway! I probably make these rather chatty, but, I don't know. I have about 600 readers, according to the stats, maybe more given that doesn't include those of you that read the single-page version of theSignpost (and if youdo read the single-page version, and something I did didn't get changed in editing, I am so sorry). It feels like we used to get a lot more readers, but, well, it also feels like Wikipedia as a whole has gotten a lot less chatty than it used to be. I'd like to go back to writing the multiple articles I was doing on here for a while, but, well, one does what one has the mental capacity for, and I'm just dealing with too much other stuff to be able to do much more. As it is, probably going to have to finish the April Fools' retrospective next year, which is kind of fine.

Getting back on topic, this was a fantastic fortnight (well, fiftnight, I guess?) for featured pictures, and okay-ish for lists and articles. It marks the return of featured topics for the first time since "Animals in lagomorpha" in October last year. Or ... probably does? The trouble with featured topics is that good topics automatically become featured topics when over half their articles become featured, and sometimes that doesn't get announced properly.^[1][2]Template:Announcements/New featured content says that it's the first since "Animals in lagomorpha", though, and I don't have evidence to say otherwise.

Hope everyone's doing well!

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  Ike & Tina Turner by Rob Mieremet forAnefo, restored byAdam Cuerden, yet another featured picture. Spoiler: We have a lot this month.

Tenfeatured articles were promoted this period.

Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, nominated byIry-Hor

In a black basalt sacophagus, for centuries he lies,

Until removed in the 19th century by a pair of German guys.

(Or is it really him? Could it be an imposter?

Did some other person sneak their corpse into the roster?)

Anyway, they took him to show a friend, and, in a massive gaffe,

He was heavy so they went and broke the mummy right in half.

They didn't even take both parts: One's been lost since World War Two!

What an amazingly daft and stupid thing for archaeologists to do!

Henry II of England, nominated byUnlimitedlead

He reconquered Wales, lands in France he increased,

Butwill no-one rid him of that turbulent priest?

Battle of New Carthage, nominated byGog the Mild

For what else is our belovedfeatured article status for

But to promote each and ev'ry battle of each and ev'ryPunic War?

Seriously, though, great work, Gog! You're doingWP:MILHIST proud!

Frances Cleveland, nominated byThebiguglyalien

She was First Lady of the United States, but after Grover's death she did a ton,

Like promoting education, women's suffrage and being prepared for World War One.

Tunic (video game), nominated byPresN

When I was a child, when I got a game in a store,

I read the manual on the ride home to get myself ready for more.

This game's manual, like back then, has quite a lot to say,

But you have to unlock it to read it, a page at a time as you play.

Al-Adid, nominated byCplakidas (a.k.a. Constantine)

Who kept Egypt Shia despiteSaladin ?

Al-Adidn't. His quest he failéd in.

"My Man" (Tamar Braxton song), nominated byAoba47

A blues song that covers, as it goes on its course,

The trauma arising from Tamar's parents' divorce.

Neptune (Alexander McQueen collection), nominated byPremeditated Chaos (a.k.a. PMC)

Ancient Greece meets the eighties, and then they combine

In a dazzling display: McQueen's fashion design.

Edward Dando, nominated bySchroCat

In the early eighteen hundreds, he ate food, though without cash

By inventing something along the lines of the modern "dine-and-dash".

1919–20 Gillingham F.C. season, nominated byChrisTheDude

Throughout the First World War, the team couldn't exist

So they had to form a new one, and kept swapping who's on the list.

Twenty (!!!)featured pictures were promoted this period, including the ones at the top and the bottom of this article, and shoved in between other sections. Because there's twenty of them.

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  European bison byCharles J. Sharp
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  Plantago lanceolata byIvar Leidus
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  Sceloporus malachiticus byCharles J. Sharp
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  Eruption ofRaikoke byNASA
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  Kowloon Walled City by Ian Lambot
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  Thomas Mundy Peterson by William R. Tobias, restored byAdam Cuerden
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  Philippe Chaperon by AtelierNadar, restored byAdam Cuerden
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  Argynnis pandora byCharles J. Sharp
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  Hairy dragonfly byCharles J. Sharp
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  Lesser violetear byCharles J. Sharp
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  David Livingstone byThomas Annan, restored byAdam Cuerden
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  Garlic byIvar Leidus
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  Eurema blanda byCharles J. Sharp
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  Anemonoides blanda byReinhold Möller
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  Ludwig van Beethoven byJoseph Karl Stieler
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  Theodore von Kármán inspecting two of the models used in wind tunnels. U.S. Air Force photographer, restored byChris Woodrich

Onefeatured topic, byMaranoFan, a.k.a. NØ, was promoted this period.

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Takin' It Back

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"Made You Look"

"Bad for Me"

"Mother"

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  Sol de Mañana byKallerna. Another featured picture.

Tenfeatured lists were promoted this period.

List of diprotodonts, nominated byPresN

An order of Australian marsupials for you to view,

Like a wallaby, a bettong, or a rat-kangaroo.

List of awards and nominations received byModern Family, nominated byRunningTiger123

A mockumentary sitcom, which all the critics say

Is great at portraying relationships, one of which is gay.

List of Best Selling Rhythm & Blues Singles number ones of 1968, nominated byChrisTheDude;List of Music Bank Chart winners (2018), nominated byEN-Jungwon andJal11497;List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1969, nominated byChrisTheDude; andList of Billboard Latin Pop Airplay number ones of 2000, nominated byMagiciandude (a.k.a. Erick)

Sometimes lists might start to cluster

Which any poet's mind will fluster.

It's always hard to know what to say

About lists of what was hot on each specific day.

List of international goals scored by Kelly Smith, nominated byIdiosincrático

At football, she proved very clever:

Steph Houghton declared her "England's best-ever"

And Houghton probably was quite right,

Unless you preferEllen White.

List of malvid families, nominated byDank

There's cabbage and broccoli, but I'd ask you don't knock all yet:

For lo! There's mangos and maples and cashews and chocolate!

List of World Heritage Sites in the United States andList of World Heritage Sites in Pakistan, nominated byTone

Over the years, our goodTone has unfurled

Lists on World Heritage from throughout the world.

Al-Adidn't. His quest he failéd in. - Why would you do this linguistic violence to your poor, innocent readers? --PresN15:52, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@PresN: My goal is generally to get people interested in reading the article, or to teach them one interesting fact (lists can be kind of definitional, so I'm looser there.) It's a memorable way to get you to remember that fact. That said, next issue's is going to be kind of awkward due to things that happened during preparation.Adam Cuerden^(talk)_{Has about 8.5% of allFPs.}14:10, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]