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February 2007 North American blizzard 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.

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Date	Process	Result
March 11, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
March 16, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
December 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on February 15, 2007.
Current status: Delisted good article

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This article has been viewed enough times in a single year to make it into the Top 50 Report annual list. This happened in 2007.

Has the storm abated?[edit]

This article is misleading as the infobox suggests under the dissipation heading that the storm is ongoing, yet the main paragraph that it states that it was a storm? Which tense is correct?

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GAR[edit]

There are a lot of cntags. I think it should be GAR’d. 108.58.27.76 (talk) 21:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment[edit]

February 2007 North American blizzard[edit]

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Article (edit | visual edit | history) · Article talk (edit | history) · Watch • Watch article reassessment page • GAN review not found

Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 21:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This 2007 listing contains significant uncited material, violating GA criterion 2b). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:28, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Dead links have become a major problem since the NWS forecast offices changed their links. News reports that are not archived have the same problem as well. ChessEric 20:33, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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