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	Area 51 has been listed as one of the Warfare 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 January 15, 2021 Good article nominee Listed
	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 2, 2021. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there?
	Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 14, 2009, June 25, 2018, and June 25, 2021.

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 05:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there? Source: Area 51#U-2 program
  • ALT1:... that Area 51 was the location of the first flight of the highly secretive Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird? Source: Area 51#OXCART program and Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Improved to Good Article status by REDMAN 2019 (talk). Self-nominated at 10:42, 20 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

• This article is a newly promoted GA and meets the newness and length criteria. The ALT0 hook facts are cited inline and that hook is fine, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. I cannot see which cited sentence backs up ALT1, and the word "Blackbird" is not used on the page. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Rusk?

Area 51#1974 Skylab photography quotes William Colby as writing in 1974, "[Secretary of State Rusk] did raise it—said State Dept. people felt strongly. ..." This appears to be an error, as Dean Rusk was not even in government at the time. The memo has "Secretary Rusk" typed, but the letter "k" in "Rusk" is crossed out and replaced with a handwritten "h". -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:28, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 18 October 2025

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102.222.235.254 (talk) 07:18, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Empty edit request Theeverywhereperson (talk here) 08:26, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]