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Area 51 has been listed as one of the Warfare 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.

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January 15, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 2, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 05:19, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Area 51 was originally called Paradise Ranch to encourage workers to move there? Source: Area 51#U-2 program
- ALT1:... that Area 51 was the location of the first flight of the highly secretive Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird? Source: Area 51#OXCART program and Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

Improved to Good Article status by REDMAN 2019 (talk). Self-nominated at 10:42, 20 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

This article is a newly promoted GA and meets the newness and length criteria. The ALT0 hook facts are cited inline and that hook is fine, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. I cannot see which cited sentence backs up ALT1, and the word "Blackbird" is not used on the page. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:38, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

town name

CIA calls it watertown in their website. would added a reference as watertown nevada make sense.[1]https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/area-51-and-the-accidental-test-flight/ 2603:8000:5000:E9D2:C967:353F:29A6:AC07 (talk) 22:10, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Template: DMY?

This is an article about a place in the United States which customarily uses Month, Day, Year dates. However, someone put the Template:Use DMY on the page. Anyone opposed to me changing it to fit customary American date notation? TheYearbookTeacher (talk) 14:29, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]