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Bees and toxic chemicals 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.

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Date	Process	Result
March 6, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed
April 28, 2007	Good article reassessment	Listed
July 17, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept
October 13, 2024	Good article reassessment	Kept
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 22, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the interaction of bees and toxic chemicals* can make bees drunk or produce poisonous honey?*
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GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

There are some uncited statements.
There is a large use of block quotes that should probably be summarised and reduced/removed.
There are sources listed in "Further reading" that should be incorporated into the article or removed.
"Toxic plant honey" suffers from MOS:OVERSECTION and these sections probably need to be expanded.

Is anyone interested in fixing up this article, or should it be sent to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 20:25, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Bees and toxic chemicals

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Result: Withdrawn Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 22:52, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are some uncited statements and a large use of block quotes that should probably be summarised and reduced/removed. Sources listed in "Further reading" should be incorporated into the article or removed. "Toxic plant honey" suffers from MOS:OVERSECTION and these sections probably need to be expanded. Z1720 (talk) 16:06, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uncited claims: Removed or cited all of them.
Block quotes: removed most of them, cut down the rest.
Further reading: deleted the dead ones, ditto for 'External links'. The one remaining item has a list that may be of interest.
Oversection: merged all subsections of 'Toxic honey' to one paragraph; this is quite enough detail for this subtopic. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:12, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above has resolved my concerns, I'm fine with this being declared keep. Z1720 (talk) 16:15, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.