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Night of the Living Dead is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 31, 2006.

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Date	Process	Result
July 8, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
July 11, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
July 21, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 27, 2012	Featured article review	Demoted
June 2, 2018	Good article nominee	Not listed
October 22, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 31, 2023. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Night of the Living Dead (film featured) was mistakenly released into the public domain?
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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Reversion of edit to copyright status section

This is the first time I've heard of a sourced vandalism. It's in the public notice on page 80 of this issue of Broadcasting Magazine, for those wondering where I got this information. --2600:6C5D:5B00:A84D:85D4:F4FC:E11E:842D (talk) 04:50, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source that could be added.

Found a Vanity Fair article that may be useful for this page, but I'm not sure where to put it. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2008/03/halloween-horror-movie-golden-age Cahlin29 (talk) 03:30, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cahlin29! Is there something in the Vanity Fair article,^{[archive link]} that's missing from the Wikipedia article? Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 03:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]