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Chicken is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.

Chicken has been listed as one of the Agriculture, food and drink 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.

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Date	Process	Result
March 12, 2001	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 7, 2024	Good article nominee	Listed

Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

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This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Ryan North (8 November 2006). "Dinosaur Comics! #879". Retrieved 14 February 2019.
Ryan North (8 November 2006). "Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens Dot Com". Retrieved 14 February 2019.
Andrew Orlowski (9 November 2006). "Wikipedia Chicken attacked". The Register. Retrieved 14 February 2019.

Text or other creative content from this version of Chicken was copied or moved into Cultural references to chickens with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

The content of Chickens as pets was merged into Chicken on 04 June 2020. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists. For the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2026

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I request for where it says "is a domesticated form" to be changed to "is the domesticated form" please. ~2026-33500-57 (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:34, 6 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 16 June 2026

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I would like to add links and fix grammar issues. Stephenboi (talk) 15:07, 16 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. pattersonuwu ^njz (talk) 15:53, 16 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2026

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