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Good articleDavid Irving has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
On this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 30, 2005Featured article candidateNot promoted
August 7, 2005Featured article candidateNot promoted
November 4, 2010Peer reviewReviewed
February 12, 2011Good article nomineeListed
August 3, 2011Good article reassessmentKept
On this day... A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on March 24, 2017.
Current status: Good article



Hitler's possible motives for not signing the July 31 "final solution" order and instead apparently delegating this task to his deputy Goering.

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This following addition-revision of the text should be added after my previous suggested edit of the text concerning the date of Hitler's decision to authorize a "total solution" of the Jewish question. "No historian of any repute professes to know why hitler delegated the signing of the "final solution" and "total solution" order to his deputy Goering rather than signing it himself. We sugtgest that perhaps Hitler realized the criminal nature of the order, and felt more comfortable ordering his deputy to sign the order rather than doing so himself. 2603:7000:CF00:1202:28FD:F1E1:5F4E:12BA (talk) 14:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2024

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Requires n doord comma. 64.189.18.44 (talk) 15:22, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. PianoDan (talk) 16:40, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

uncited claim about divorce

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In the article, it states that "Irving's affairs caused his first marriage to end in divorce in 1981." - but there is no citation. I think this should be removed as per WP:BLP. 45.178.73.82 (talk) 21:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

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I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

  • At over 11,000 words, WP:TOOBIG suggests that it might be split up or summarised more effectively.
  • The article relies too much on block quotes: removing and summarising these will help reduce the article length.
  • There are many sources listed in the bibliography that are not used as inline citations: these should be considered for their inclusion or removed.
  • Some sections are too large and should be broken up with headings.

Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should it go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:56, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the problem is as great as you lay out. The article is written well, and covers a lot of territory with appropriate detail. 156 kb isn't outlandishly big. WP:TOOBIG says "the scope of a topic can sometimes justify the added reading material."
The GA version in 2011 contained block quotes, too. The block quotes convey a great deal of information including Irving's deeply hateful tone, which would disappear if summarized.
Feel free to reduce the bibliography. Binksternet (talk) 03:52, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]