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Quakers was one of the Philosophy and religion 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
November 21, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
December 11, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
July 21, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Material removed from another page

The following I remmoved from the disambiguation page Sylvania. I have no idea why it was there.

I do not feel competent to determine if any of this should be in a Quaker article so am putting it here for whatever use anyone cares to make of it.

The subjects listed in "National and international divisions and organisation" has "by country" bolded more than the following sections

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

just could be misleading "by country" is bolded and seems to imply the next sections are subordinates even though they arent Lunarsignal (talk) 20:28, 24 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

info box

Latest comment: 8 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

in dark mode you can not read the "Part of a series on" link for the Protestantism info box ~2025-36279-15 (talk) 17:52, 25 November 2025 (UTC)Reply