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	Ecology 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.
Article milestones Date Process Result December 22, 2010 Good article nominee Not listed March 6, 2011 Good article nominee Not listed May 5, 2011 Good article nominee Listed September 20, 2011 Featured article candidate Not promoted August 21, 2012 Peer review Reviewed Current status: Good article

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To-do list for Ecology: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2013-12-16 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Expand : *Reduce the number of wikilinks, remove double links Ensure consistent British v. American spellings WP:ENGVAR Find and correct typographical or grammatical errors Book sources need specific page numbers for each citation Format external links consistently and reduce in number Work on organization in table of contents Critical fact check Check for adherence to the manual of style See Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Ecology/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Ecology/archive1 for further details Priority 1 (top)

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Not sure how to report this, but the mobile page for "Ecology" has some sort of glitch whereby the text scroll can be shifted about a half inch to the left and off the screen. Can somebody on the back end fix this? Just letting you know. 142.114.188.138 (talk) 23:05, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Cullen328, there seems to be something to this. Do you know who fixes stuff like this? Drmies (talk) 23:08, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Drmies, I use the desktop site on Android phones and my current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S21 Utra 5G. I just checked the page on the mobile view and it scrolls normally to me, but again I rarely use the mobile view because I dislike it. I suggest reporting the issue to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), mentioning the device and operating system being used. Cullen328 (talk) 23:42, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has been a while since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed the following:

• There are uncited statements in the article, including entire paragraphs and sections. While some uncited statements are covered by WP:CALC, most need citations

• Fixed.

• At over 10,500 words, this article is too detailed and WP:TOOBIG. I suggest that this article be spun out, summarised more effectively, or trimmed.

• Each section with a "main" link should be in summary style. Accordingly I've trimmed the article by 20%, with usually one paragraph per "main"-linked section. Chiswick Chap (talk) 02:33, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:27, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That shouldn't be necessary (specially during the July-August holiday season). I'll attend to the article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 02:32, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think the article is now tidy. Ecology is a major science and even when concisely summarized is necessarily substantial. The article already points to many subsidiary articles; the remaining material logically belongs at this the top level. Chiswick Chap (talk) 03:46, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]