Gyeongju is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
	This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on November 8, 2005.
Article milestones Date Process Result July 21, 2005 Peer review Reviewed August 4, 2005 Featured article candidate Promoted October 15, 2009 Featured article review Kept April 2, 2022 Featured article review Demoted Current status: Former featured article

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This 2005 WP:FA promotion was last reviewed in 2009 and has not been maintained to WP:WIAFA standard. Unless these issues can be addressed, the article should be submitted for a Featured article review:

• There are external jumps within the text.
• MOS:DTAB
• For non-English-language citations, the |title= and |trans-title= parameters should be used.
• There are considerable dead links.
• There is extremely dated content everywhere one looks, samples only, but the problem is pervasive:
  • As of December 2008, the city government employed 1,462 people.
  • Like most of South Korea's smaller cities, Gyeongju has seen a steady drop in population in recent years. From 2002 to 2008, ...
• MOS:SANDWICH and poor image layout.

It does not appear that the article has been maintained since its 2009 FAR; a top-to-bottom rewrite is needed to maintain FA status. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:33, 21 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

😭😭😭 Such good work.

Let's get the Seoul article in better shape; it's currently not doing so good. toobigtokale (talk) 19:37, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]