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Steve Irwin was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
September 5, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 26, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
February 5, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
July 17, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
May 1, 2025	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on September 4, 2017, and September 4, 2020.
Current status: Delisted good article

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Since it has been awhile since the last assessment, I have had another look at the current version and noticed the following:

There is uncited text in the article, including entire paragraphs.
There is an orange "expansion needed" banner from December 2024

Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 18:11, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Steve Irwin

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:17, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is uncited text in the article, including entire paragraphs. There is an orange "expansion needed" banner from December 2024 Z1720 (talk) 01:52, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I updated the citations in the early life section and reworked it a bit.

I will do more soon as the article needs some work. Idiosincrático (talk) 09:59, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Remove – On second thought this needs a lot of work. Idiosincrático (talk) 09:38, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.