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Former good articleLabrador Retriever was one of the Natural sciences 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
September 27, 2007Good article nomineeListed
June 24, 2009Peer reviewReviewed
October 16, 2019Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Community reassessment

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Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · WatchWatch article reassessment pageMost recent review
Result: Delist Clear consensus to delist AIRcorn (talk) 08:35, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I believe this article should be stripped of being listed as a Good article due to the fact that there are multiple additional citations tags in a lot of the article's sections, which IMMEDIATELY disqualifies it according to the third GA criteria. It was listed over a decade ago, in 2007, so I don't know if the rules were extremely lenient back then? Because though I haven't checked a lot of the sources, I know that it needs a lot of fixing up with updating prose with reliable citations.

There is also an issue with people simply adding free-use pictures of their labradors for the heck of it rather than with an image matching commentary reflecting the section's information. Doubt that's a GA issue though, just something I should mention. -NowIsntItTime(chats)(doings) 02:56, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sad to see. ..but this needs lots of manpower to fix up. Will research sources soon.--Moxy 🍁 04:16, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Glad to hear it Moxy! -NowIsntItTime(chats)(doings) 18:54, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree. This is the English-speaking Wikipedia, and for us the Labrador Retriever is arguably "the flagship dog". It should be at FA standard. The same old problem - overweight labbies again! Quick solution? Axe everything that is unsourced or dubious. That text will either return again fully cited, or simply be removed and leading to a weight reduction. I am in favor of a reclass to quality=B. Even after the axing! I would do both right now, but will be guided by your consensus. William Harristalk 11:14, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree. I call WP:CONSENSUS. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 11:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy delist I say WP:IAR and delist it now. There are way too many maintenance tags and image-spam issues for it to even need to sit in a queue any longer. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 22:00, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@NowIsntItTime, TenPoundHammer, Moxy, William Harris, and Cavalryman: I am speedy delisting . I guess if you want to start a reclamation drive, the article's talk page would be a good place to do it. Cheers. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 01:09, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you... we can now clean it up without people say ..."no no dont remove its a GA article". I am up for helping this weekend.--Moxy 🍁 01:21, 17 October 2019 (UTC
Well done Lingzhi2. Also, whether an article is at GA or even FA, that should not deter editors from ensuring that it complies with WP:POL. I will place my watch on the LR page for a week in support of the efforts here - there may be some biting necessary. "Let the games begin!" William Harristalk 04:39, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Study

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would this study be useful as a source? https://az.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=4258&item_no=1&attribute_id=20&file_no=3&page_id=13&block_id=17

I dont really understand it but labradors are involved in it SpookMew (talk) 14:58, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject United Kingdom

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Why isn’t this included under the scope of Wiki Project United Kingdom? SpookMew (talk) 23:20, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I added it.
Labrador 🇬🇧🤝🦮 SpookMew (talk) 23:26, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Popularity of the breed

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The breed is said, early in this article, to be popular in "the European world". Is this the same as Europe - if so it should be shortened to that. If not, what does it mean? Whatever that is, it could be said more clearly. ShropshirePilgrim (talk) 14:56, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]