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Gorilla (advertisement) was one of the Social sciences and society 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
December 12, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
March 18, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 13, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that in 2007, Phil Collins' 1981 hit "In the Air Tonight" reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart after appearing in Cadbury's Gorilla advertising campaign?

Current status: Delisted good article

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Apropos of nothing

Apropos of nothing, of the many parodies watched while researching the article, this one is probably my favourite. Something about watching the gorilla trying to rock out to Bonnie Tyler just cracks me up. :) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To add to the list of favourites in the myriad lampoons, gangsta rap gets represented with 50 Cent - Al.locke (talk) 05:18, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good article nomination on hold

This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write. This is how the article, as of December 11, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?: Overly long sentence at beginning of Sequence section. Are the redlinks needed for the various terms/people? Are they notable enough that they could have their own articles in their own right?

2. Factually accurate?: Generally well-cited throughout. Some other minor points on sourcing :

Use of Citation Templates would be nice and would help to standardize the citations in the References section and add some sense of uniformity, though not required.
Overall, make sure that citations appear after punctuation throughout the article.
Citation needed at end of first paragraph of Background section.

3. Broad in coverage?: Passes here, many aspects well covered.

4. Neutral point of view?: Seems to be written in neutral wording throughout.

5. Article stability? No problems seen on talk page, edit history and edit summaries going back to article creation seem fine.

6. Images?: Three images with appropriate usage, fair-use rationales provided for each.

Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved. After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again. If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice. Thank you for your work so far.— Cirt (talk) 19:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

After these above issues have been addressed, please make a note of it, here below. At that point message my talk page and I will take another look. Cirt (talk) 19:53, 11 December 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Looks like Alientraveller has gone through and addressed the issues raised here. Of the redlinks, I'd've kept Juan Cabral linked in the infobox (pretty big name in some circles of the advertising industry) and Cadbury Purple (aka Pantone 2685C), which I've been meaning to write an article on for a while, but I can always relink them if and when I find the time to make them blue. Other than those, no objections. With regards to cite templates, I personally find the things horrendous to use and, after having to write out references for papers and coursework without automated help for several years, I'm pretty consistent with guidelines anyway :) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Pass

Good work, thank you for addressing my points from above. I feel this article is now of a high enough quality and satisfies the above criteria that I can pass it as a Good Article. I will go ahead and make the various updates. Nice job! Cirt (talk) 23:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC).[reply]

WikiProjects

There are probably some relevant WikiProjects that you could add to the top of the talk page. As it stands now, there are none. Cirt (talk) 23:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Note for later

Forgot to update this when it first came out, but according to the annual Gunn report, Gorilla was the most awarded commercial of 2008 (backup ref: [1]) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 19:37, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also: Pepperami parody: [2] GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 19:37, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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'Production' section needs cleaning

I'm new to posting editing stuff. However:

The gorilla suit was created by Stan Winston Studios in California and the 'Meerkat of Moorgate'- the City of London's most famous FX trader - Anthony Wood (known in the East End simply as 'Angry Ant') was the man inside it. Once his secret was out, Anthony immediately released his own cover of 'I can feel it coming in the air tonight', with a B side of Tina Turner's Private Dancer, that Rolling Stone magazine called the best thing to happen to music since Victoria Beckham stopped singing.

This is clearly bollocks, and needs to be sorted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.253.214.6 (talk) 11:19, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review

Should we subject this article for peer review? Lbertolotti (talk) 16:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Reassessment

Gorilla (advertisement)

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:29, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is significant uncited material in this 2007 promotion, meaning it does not meet GA criterion 2b). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 02:37, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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