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Article milestones Date Process Result June 27, 2006 Good article nominee Listed October 7, 2006 Good article reassessment Delisted January 23, 2007 Peer review Reviewed June 29, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted June 1, 2007 Featured article candidate Not promoted July 28, 2007 Good article nominee Not listed March 8, 2008 Good article nominee Not listed April 13, 2008 Good article nominee Listed Current Status: Good article

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Convert all (web) references to use the {{cite web}} template - Y Done The Helpful One (Review) 21:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Edit the lead to conform the Wikipedia:Lead section guidelines - Y Done Seems to have been done. --The Helpful One (Review) 10:23, 10 April 2008 (UTC) Copyedit - remove redundancies, make text crisp and concise, specify when talking about size and avoid misplaced formality - Y Done - I asked a CopyEditor to help out on this. The Helpful One (Review) 15:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC) See User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a [edit] WP:GA to do Fix the problems from the last GA review

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[edit] Error in Overview

There is a point in the overview which says that the enchantment which protects Harry was produced by his mother to last until his 17th birthday. In fact, the enchantment was produced and sealed by Dumbledore. This is mentioned in both HBP and DH.

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