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Atlanta was one of the Geography and places 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.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
January 29, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
December 20, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
January 31, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 30, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
April 25, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
August 8, 2012	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 22, 2021	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Citation for Native Name

A new resource just published the accurate Muscogee name for Atlanta: Pvkvn-Huere “Standing peachtree." The blog in question, https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/turtle-island-decolonized/ , was rejected, but is highly researched from primary sources, tribal language departments, which are cited within the page. As there is little published material on Indigenous place names in North America that is accurate and spelled in modern orthographies, this is currently the most accurate source on the topic. The only Google results for "Pvkvn-Huere" are this blog, which cites Muscogee linguist Jack Martin, author of the Muscogee Dictionary. "FISHERCAT5751 (talk) 18:46, 14 October 2023 (UTC)"[reply]

Request for comment

Moved to Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Decolonial Atlas

– Frostly (talk) 20:13, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Missing refs

@Patapsco913: looks like you've introduced a couple of cite errors while trying to add census numbers. I'd fix them, but don't know what they're meant to refer to. -- Fyrael (talk) 17:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Fyrael: - sorry about that. I fixed them. Cheers! Patapsco913 (talk) 18:24, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem removed

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Interactive map borders about 7 years out of date

Hello, I'm not familiar with the templates used to draw the interactive city boundaries, but from what I could deduce it appears that the shape file is pulled from OpenStreetsMap? Is this accurate?

Could anyone advise on what the next steps would be to update this shape file, since it is around 7 years out of date at this point.

Best, --haha169 (talk) 14:23, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Basically, the steps are:

Open an account at openstreetmaps.org and login.
Find the map that shows the boundaries (I'm guessing this is it).
There, either redraw the boundaries (not easy) or ask someone there to update it.

Stefen 𝕋ower_{s among the rest!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 21:12, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! --haha169 (talk) 13:22, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Haha169 98.16.138.248 (talk) 06:18, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]