Talk:Messier 87

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Messier 87 is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on September 1, 2018.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 18, 2010	Good article nominee	Not listed
December 12, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
March 17, 2018	Peer review	Reviewed
May 12, 2018	Featured article candidate	Promoted
Current status: Featured article

Splitting

What are y’all’s thoughts on splitting the page so the section about the M87 SMBH has its own page? It seems awfully long and detailed to just be a subsection or even a section of this article, and it would definitely meet notability guidelines Shocksingularity (talk) 01:32, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

At a quick glance, you seem to be talking about six paragraphs of text and a bunch of images. You'd have to leave some of them in place anyway as a summary, which doesn't leave a lot of unique text for a new article. Tarl N. (discuss) 01:52, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On first glance, it seemed that too many images had been crammed in to that section since the FA promotion, and I was going to suggest simply removing some images and prose tightening. But the content reveals that the imaging in this case was novel/historic, hence those images are useful somewhere. A separate article may be warranted so the image clutter here can be reduced, and for better summarization. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 07:46, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]