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Mir was one of the Engineering and technology 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
March 14, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
July 31, 2011	Peer review	Reviewed
June 5, 2021	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 19, 2005, February 19, 2006, February 19, 2007, February 19, 2008, February 19, 2009, February 19, 2011, February 19, 2015, February 19, 2016, and June 25, 2017.
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GA reassessment

Mir

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Result: DelistThe issues raised have not been addressed Aircorn (talk) 08:36, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It has hatnotes listed at the top of the page. If it uses unreliable sources, then it does not meet the Good Article criteria. PhotographyEdits (talk) 11:42, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delist – per nom. – zmbro _(talk) 16:34, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delist - nothing happening. Urve (talk) 09:43, 5 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This has been unnecessarily tag bombed. I am unsure about Encyclopedia Astronautica. It is used on thousands of articles here, but is clearly self published. I would be surprised if there were not better sources as they seem to essentially do what we do and collect other sourced information. As to the page numbers that does need to be addressed. Aircorn (talk) 07:15, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Transatracurium: as the original nominator Aircorn (talk) 07:16, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep at current level since this cites some sources that are crowd sourced and the site sites other sources. Rather, those site should be replaced with the relevant refernces on them.

When was Mir launched?

The internet seems unclear on this:

This page say the 19th
NASA says the 19th, https://www.nasa.gov/history/35-years-ago-launch-of-mir-space-stations-first-module/
ESA says the 20th, https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Mir_FAQs_-_Facts_and_history
EB says 20th, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mir-Soviet-Russian-space-station
NY Times said "today" on the 20th, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/20/us/russians-launch-a-space-station.html
BBC says 20th, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_4713000/4713752.stm
Popular Mechanics says 20th, https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19517/mir-space-station-30th-anniversary/
This log of launches says specifically the 19th at 21:28 UTC (which would have been the 20th at the launch site in Kazakhstan), https://www.orbitalfocus.uk/Diaries/StationsMir/1986.php (but I have no idea how trustworthy this log is)
Mir Core Module says 20th

It certainly seems like it should be the 20th if we're counting from where it was launched. Coderanger0 (talk) 06:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

19 February 1986 at 21:28:23 UTC. See the second entry in the table at List of Proton launches (1980–1989)#1986. (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 08:15, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of final configuration

The infobox might be improved by using this photo of the final configuration of Mir. Any objections, or reasons to continue using the current image?

(— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 08:03, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]