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Whale has been listed as one of the Natural sciences 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
February 17, 2015	Articles for deletion	Speedily kept
August 12, 2015	Peer review	Reviewed
September 4, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
September 25, 2015	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
December 22, 2025	Good article reassessment	Kept
Current status: Good article

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Dolphins and Porpoises.

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Porpoises are a separate family from oceanic dolphins, you should fix that. IHReno (talk) 05:12, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Incorrect. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:14, 6 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Article review

Latest comment: 7 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed that there are lots of uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 21:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

GA Reassessment

Latest comment: 7 months ago4 comments3 people in discussion

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Result: Consensus among participants that the issues have been resolved. TompaDompa (talk) 16:51, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. Z1720 (talk) 05:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Keep. I've removed accretions, added sources, copy-edited, and tidied up the images. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:16, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Keep. Citation concerns resolved. I moved sources not used as inline citations to the "Further reading" section. Z1720 (talk) 16:02, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Dolphins and Porpoises.

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