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May 29, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 29, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 9, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
September 29, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 30, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
January 11, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
May 14, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
June 1, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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February 25, 2017	Featured article review	Demoted
July 15, 2025	Good article nominee	Not listed
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Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2025

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The capital needs to be edited as it is now Nusantara since November 2024. 198.58.160.119 (talk) 20:28, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 00:54, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Capital City

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantara 2A02:8428:83A3:3701:143A:7C6F:3B63:416C (talk) 18:01, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 July 2025

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change “Protestanism” to “Protestantism” 129.126.83.246 (talk) 04:59, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Could only find one instance of this in the infobox, everything else looks fine. UmbyUmbreon (talk) 05:21, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA review

Unsuccessful. Jens Lallensack (talk) 13:26, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Indonesia/GA3. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Ophyrius (talk · contribs) 08:46, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs) 13:23, 15 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The nominator does not seem to be one of the main authors of the article.

Review (conclusion): There are many great things about this article: Comprehensiveness, structure, reasonable article length, and reasonably good prose. However, the issue is with the sourcing. I did a limited number of spot checks across the article, and quickly discovered multiple instances of unsourced information. Consequently, the article is in need of a careful sources check throughout, which is a monumental task as there are 372 sources. I have to fail this article for now because the article is far away from meeting GA criterium 2 "verifiable". However, I would offer any help I can if you want to address this task.

Details (sources review:)

There are many cases of missing inline citations, for example for the sentence "which today remain celebrated as masterpieces of Indonesia's sophisticated artistic and architectural heritage", which also fails WP:Peacock. Another example, with the very same issues, is Other traditional crafts, including carpentry and masonry, showcase intricate decorations and techniques passed down through generations.
Lewis, Peter (1982). "The next great empire" – This source is used to support much of a paragraph on general Indonesian history, but the only Indonesian-related info I can find in that source is a table entry of the Majapahit kingdom and when its peak power was.
Source "Indonesian Football History: Dutch East Indies Qualified for the 1938 World Cup" supports multiple sentences on badminton; however, badminton is not mentioned in the source.
Of the 400 volcanoes, around 130 are active.[94] – Should be straightforward facts, but even here: The 130 active volcanoes are mentioned in an image caption in the source, but I can't find a statement that there are 400 volcanoes anywhere.
"Informasi Pariwisata Nusantara (Not for sale) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia. 2014." – This is used as source for most of a paragraph on tourism, but there is no link or identifier, it seems impossible to trace this source down. Furthermore, a governmental source on tourism is not an independent and unbiased one. This can be a problem, for example, the statement of how much forest cover there is seems to be exaggerated (the number does not match with the number provided earlier in the article).
Sourcing also seems a bit outdated at places; e.g., the history section stops at 2005 (that's 20 years ago now – is that 2005 incident really more notable than anything that happened in these 20 years?). --Jens Lallensack (talk) 13:23, 15 July 2025 (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.

Totally confusing- merge or not?

(Indonesian archipelago) Some similar maps, and it's (totally) for the described country. Do we need to merge, or just need for a while because they could be don't fit? (please help, if this resulted a major "Yes", merge it immediately) 2405:4803:C7A5:45C0:787B:C2AA:C6CA:EAF2 (talk) 08:08, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"The world's most populous Muslim nation" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect The world's most populous Muslim nation has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 17 § The world's most populous Muslim nation until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 02:28, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]