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Thriller (song) has been listed as one of the Music 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
April 1, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
April 22, 2010	Good topic candidate	Not promoted
September 19, 2023	Good article reassessment	Kept
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 4, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Michael Jackson's hit song "Thriller", co-produced by him and Quincy Jones, was originally titled "Starlight"?
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GA Reassessment

Thriller (song)

The following discussion 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.

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Result: Most of the article is fixed by user TheWikiholic, so there's no consensus to delist now. VAUGHAN J. (TALK) 06:56, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA from 2010. Fails criteria 2. Nominating this because there is one failed verification tag, with a discussion that has been abandoned since it started in April 2021, and one citation needed tag, excluding the one from the lead. VAUGHAN J. (TALK) 03:01, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sources have been added. If there are any other issues? TheWikiholic (talk) 16:20, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to have to do a ref review just like the GAN reviews, so I'm going to review it within a week or so. Ping me when it's been over a week and I haven't started it yet. — VAUGHAN J. (TALK) 09:43, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References review

Ref 1 – Add author and date of when the MTV article was published
Ref 3 – www.rockonthenet.com → Rock on the Net and cite website to be publisher
Ref 4 – www.grammy.net → Grammy Awards and cite website to be a publisher
Ref 6 – Michael Jackson, the king of pop: the big picture : the music! the man! the legend! the interviews : an anthology → Michael Jackson, the King of Pop: The Big Picture – The Music! The Man! The Legend! The Interviews: An Anthology
Ref 7 – Cite 12tone to be as a publisher, and cite YouTube to be at the via parameter
Ref 11 – Cite PRS for Music to be as a publisher, and cite M Magazine to be at the via parameter
Ref 15 – "Michael Jackson's Thriller Album: Stories In the Room" → "Live Q&A with @anthonymarinellimusic taking question about Michael Jackson's Thriller, Synths, Chips, and much more!" Cite Instagram to be at the via parameter, and add Stories in the Room as a publisher
Ref 21 – Add author (Miles Marshall Lewis) and date of when the BET article is published, and cite BET to be as a publisher
Ref 23 – Capitalise "the"
Ref 26 – Remove the .com
Ref 27 – Remove the .com
Ref 28 – billboardtop100of.com → Billboard
Ref 29 – Remove the .com
Ref 30 – Remove the .com
Ref 34 – Remove the .com
Ref 35 – Remove the .com
Ref 36 – Cite Official Charts Company as a publisher
Ref 49 – NYTImes.com → The New York Times
Ref 87 – Add date of when the Billboard article is published (November 6, 2018)

Vaughan J.Reverting due to premature closure. If you are doing both the nomination and the reassessments you have to allow time for other editors to fix the issues. You cannot close the reassessment within 24 hours. If you are unaware of proper procedure, allow someone else to finish the job.— TheWikiholic (talk) 16:03, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vaughan J., I have fixed the citations that you noted above. If there is anything else, let me know. By the way, it is a good practice to leave your signature even when you are doing a review. Regards TheWikiholic (talk) 17:55, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TheWikiholic only two more that i've added, then we're done! — VAUGHAN J. (TALK) 23:02, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done TheWikiholic (talk) 16:12, 18 September 2023 (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.

Song in Super Mario media

I heard this song was covered by Maxdown in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! NoahAlexanderJohnson101 (talk) 03:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]