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Brain was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
January 29, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
November 14, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
December 16, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
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March 3, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 28, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 23, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept
December 17, 2011	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 13, 2024	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

There is uncited text, including the entire "Birds" section.
At just over 9,000 words, this article might be too long. I do not think information needs to be removed, but perhaps information can be summarised more effectively, and the block quotes evaluated to see if they are still needed.
The "Society and culture" section is underdeveloped, with only one line about its use in food and no information about its use in literature or the arts, especially its use as an allegory.

Is anyone willing to address the above, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 15:35, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Brain

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Result: Delisted. Charlotte (Queen of Hearts • talk) 22:56, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are uncited statements, including almost the entire "Birds" section. At over 9,000 words, WP:TOOBIG recommends splitting off the article; since this is such a big topic, it might not be possible but should probably be considered after a subject-matter expert tries making this more concise. The "Society and culture" section is underdeveloped, with only one line about its use in food and no information about its use in literature or the arts, especially its use as an allegory. Z1720 (talk) 19:20, 5 October 2024 (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.

"information integrating" in the intro should be hyphenated

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The adjective is currently written as "information integrating," which lacks the needed hyphen. 71.251.8.38 (talk) 17:38, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Day Creature (talk) 18:56, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Title and citation replacement suggestions

As this page cannot be edited by users who are not logged in, I would like to suggest the following changes to content added on the 28th November 2017:

- That the title Society and culture should be changed to Food and rituals

- That the source on this copy "Some archaeological evidence suggests that the mourning rituals of European Neanderthals also involved the consumption of the brain." should be changed to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-86093-w as the current one is now quite dated and unavailable to view entirely online 86.21.9.176 (talk) 12:31, 18 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]