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This is a draft of a potential Signpost article, and should not be interpreted as a finished piece. Its content is subject to review by the editorial team and ultimately by JPxG, the editor in chief. Please do not link to this draft as it is unfinished and the URL will change upon publication. If you would like to contribute and are familiar with the requirements of a Signpost article, feel free to be bold in making improvements! This draft article ... N ... has no title defined. N ... has no blurb defined. N ... is not yet ready to be copyedited. N ... has not yet been copyedited. N ... does not have an image. N ... is not yet approved for publication. Writer resources ... The Newsroom (talk) Content guidance Cheatsheet Formatting Resources Style Submissions Suggestions Previous "Featured content"s deadlines Writing: 6 January 00:00 (5 days left; 38%) Publishing: 7 January 00:00 (6 days left; 42%)There are 4 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes and 36 seconds until deadline. (refresh) Last revised 07:31, 2 February 2015 (UTC) (9 years ago) by WPPilot (refresh)

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Featured articles

Two featured articles were promoted this week.

• Operation Mascot (nominated by Nick-D) Operation Mascot was an unsuccessful British carrier air raid conducted against the German battleship Tirpitz at her anchorage in Kaafjord, Norway, on 17 July 1944. The attack was one of a series of strikes against the battleship launched from aircraft carriers between April and August 1944, initiated after Allied intelligence determined that the damage inflicted during the Operation Tungsten raid on 3 April had been repaired. A force of 44 British dive bombers and 40 fighters took off from three aircraft carrierson the 17th of July. German radar stations detected these aircraft while they were en route to Kaafjord, but the Tirpitz was protected by a smoke screen when the strike force arrived.
• Freedom Planet (nominated by Tezero) Freedom Planet is a two-dimensional platform video game created by independent developer GalaxyTrail, a studio set up for the project by designer Stephen DiDuro. The player controls one of three anthropomorphic animal protagonists: the dragon Lilac, the wildcat Carol, or the basset hound Milla. Aided by the duck-like Torque, the player attempts to defeat the evil Lord Brevon, who plans to conquer the galaxy. While the game focuses on fast-paced platforming, its levels are interspersed with slower action scenes.

Featured lists

Three featured lists were promoted this week.

• List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by James Anderson (nominated by Khadar Khani) Description.
• Tom Cruise filmography (nominated by Cowlibob) Description.
• List of accolades received by Star Trek Into Darkness (nominated by Miyagawa) Description.

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Look, guys. We can't just grab two or three sentences from an article blindly and call "done". We can use articles, but it's misusing them when you're grabbing the boring sentences, or ending the summary of someone's life at age 11. If this is what the short form is, we're going to have to give up on doing the short form. Adam Cuerden 22:58, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

NP I was as per Ed req. trying to do shorter summaries. I will go back to my former style, if you will and let you two do the final... talk→ WPPilot  01:34, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I can always trim down a bit itnt the copyedit, but I just don't think this was working. =) Adam Cuerden 01:50, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

• Thomas Linley the elder (created by Thomas Gainsborough, nominated by SagaciousPhil) Thomas Linley by Thomas Gainsborough FRSA was an English portrait and landscape painter. Thomas Linley was an English tenor and musician active in Bath, Somerset. Born in Badminton, Gloucestershire, Linley began his musical career after he moved to Bath at age 11 and became apprentice to the organist Thomas Chilcot. When Linley was 11 years old, in 1744, the family moved to Bath, Somerset where he served an apprenticeship with Thomas Chilcot, the organist at Bath Abbey. As his children grew and he developed their musical talent, he drew an increasing amount of income from their concerts while also managing the assembly rooms in Bath.

• The Threatened Swan (created by Jan Asselijn, nominated by Editør) The Threatened Swan is an oil painting of a swan made around 1650 by Dutch Golden Age painter Jan Asselijn. The oil painting on canvas is 144 centimetres (57 in) high and 171 centimetres (67 in) wide. The painting's subject is a mute swan (Cygnus olor) defending its nest against a dog. At the bottom right, the painting is signed with the monogram "A". By 1880, the painting was interpreted as a political allegory of grand pensionary (the highest official in the Dutch Republic) Johan de Witt protecting the country from its enemies.
• Liberty Island (created and nominated by D. Ramey Logan (WPPilot)) Home of the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The statue designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France, federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty. The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of United States Congress in 1956. Take a ride over New York Harbor with our Aerial photographer: WPPilot on the shoot!

• Rho Ophiuchi, Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, and Infra-red view of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex (created by ESO, Rogelio Bernal Andreo, and NASA respectively, nominated by The Herald) Description...

• William III of the Netherlands (created by Nicolaas Pieneman, nominated by Editør) The painting of William III by Nicolaas Pieneman, son of painter Jan Willem Pieneman.. William III was born on 1 January 1809 in Amersfoort in the Kingdom of Holland. William III was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890. He was also the Duke of Limburg from 1849 until the abolition of the duchy in 1866. He married his first cousin, Sophie, daughter of King William I of Württemberg and Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, in Stuttgart on 18 June 1839. His extramarital enthusiasms, however, led the New York Times to call him "the greatest debauchee of the age. On the 17th. of March 1849 his father died and William succeeded to the throne of the Netherlands. He was at that moment a guest of the Duchess of Cleveland in Raby Castle. Representatives of the Dutch government traveled to London to meet their new king in London. William was reluctant to return, but he was convinced to do so. Upon arrival the new Queen welcomed her spouse with the question "did you accept?". The new king nodded, but he remained uncertain about the matter for some time.

• Northeaster (created by Winslow Homer, nominated by Hafspajen) Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer, like The Fog Warning and Breezing Up, he created it during his time in Maine. Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Northeaster is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the late-19th-century American painter Winslow Homer, like The Fog Warning and Breezing Up, he created it during his time in Maine. After extensive travel, Homer settled in Prouts Neck, Maine. He had a studio built for him, completed in 1884, and painted marine subjects, including the hard lives of the fishermen and their families. He increasingly chose to depict the sea itself, and was especially attracted to stormy seas. Many of his paintings depict the battlefront of the sea and the shore, the waves crashing onto the rocky shore. It has been said that they "are among the strongest expressions in all art of the power and dangerous beauty of the sea."

• Robert, Duke of Normandy (created by Gustave Courbet, nominated by Crisco 1492) Description...

• Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh (created by Jozef Van Lerius, nominated by Alborzagros) Description...

• Kodiak bear (created by Yathin S Krishnappa, nominated by Hafspajen) Description...

• Saint George (created by Carlo Crivelli, nominated by Crisco 1492) Description...

• Japanese invasion money for Oceania: One-half shilling, one shilling, ten shilling, one pound (created by Empire of Japan, nominated and prepared from the National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution by Godot13) Description...

• Jabberwocky illustration (created by John Tenniel, nominated by FakeShemp) Description...

• Elliðaey (created by Diego Delso, nominated by Crisco 1492) Description...

• Hereford Cathedral set: Nave looking east, nave looking west, choir of Hereford Cathedral, and Lady chapel (created by and [[Misplaced Pages:Featured picture

candidates/Hereford Cathedral set 2|nominated]] by David Iliff) Description...

• Whaler's Cove, Point Lobos, California (created and nominated by David Iliff) Point Lobos is the common name for the area including Point Lobos State Natural Reserve and two adjoining marine protected areas: Point Lobos State Marine Reserve (SMR) and Point Lobos State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA). Point Lobos is just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States, at the north end of the Big Sur coast of the Pacific Ocean. The iconic Point Lobos area is geologically unique and contains a rich and diverse plant and animal life both on shore and in the water. Called the "greatest meeting of land and water in the world" by landscape artist Francis McComas, Point Lobos is considered a crown jewel in the California state park system. The original Point Lobos Ecological Reserve was created in 1973. As one of California's most well known and longstanding no-take reserve, Point Lobos became a hotspot for non-consumptive recreational diving known for its large and diverse fish populations.

• Virgin and Child with Four Angels (created by Gerard David, nominated by Crisco 1492) Virgin and Child with Four Angels (or Virgin and Child with Angels) is a small oil-on-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Gerard David. Likely completed between 1510 and 1515, it shows the Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus, while she is anointed Queen of Heaven by two angels above her, accompanied by music provided by another two angels placed at either side of her. In its fine detail and lush use of colour the work is typical of both David and late period Flemish art. The painting is heavily influenced by Jan van Eyck's Virgin with Child at a Fountain, especially in the modeling of the Madonna and child.

• The Old Musician (created by Édouard Manet, nominated by Crisco 1492) The Old Musician is an 1862 oil painting on canvas by French painter Édouard Manet, produced during the period when the artist was influenced by Spanish art. The painting is composed of six characters and a baby in a landscape. Most of them are in fact real individuals. The painting also betrays the influence of Gustave Courbet. This work is one of Manet's largest paintings and is now conserved at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.. The painting contains a series of more or less explicit allusions: the man in the top hat is the same character as The Absinthe Drinker, painted by Manet some years earlier and who reappears in this painting without any particular reason. The young boy in straw hat, meanwhile, is explicitly inspired by Antoine Watteau's Pierrot.

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• I bet if, in the paragraph of Thomas Linley, you mentioned that his son (also named Thomas Linley) was very good friends with Mozart, you might have received a few more hits. :) kosboot (talk) 20:16, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
• There's an excellent discussion of the problems of Jabberwocky translations in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach (ch.12 and its preface). What words/syllables do you need in French to cause the same reactions in a francophone reader, that the original does in an English reader? Scarabocchio (talk) 21:33, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Il brilgue: les tôves lubricilleux

Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave.

Enmîmés sont les gougebosqueux

Et le mômerade horsgrave.

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