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Suicide was one of the Social sciences and society 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
May 25, 2005	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
March 2, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
October 25, 2025	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Sylvester Brown, Jr. (April 19, 2005). "Start of spring draws more than just beautiful weather". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I read on Wikipedia.com, a Web-based encyclopedia, that most suicides occur in spring.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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Note: The hat note should not be changed without first establishing a new consensus. The questions of linking to suicide prevention and adding a crisis hotline number to this article has been discussed. Please review previous discussions, such as this request for comment and Talk:Suicide/crisis hotline link.

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Result: Delisted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:03, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My rationale is at Talk:Suicide#GA status. I posted there first because I was hoping someone would be interested in addressing the concerns. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 00:35, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Semi-protected edit request on 25 January 2026

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Change the list of confirmed suicides to include Sulli / Choi Jin-ri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulli Todayiscrashday (talk) 00:25, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not done Todayiscrashday this is not the correct article to make this request. Please make it at the correct article List of suicides 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 00:33, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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There should be some ways of prevention in suicide, please add it ~2026-11722-65 (talk) 08:03, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the headers at the top of this page. DonIago (talk) 15:28, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]