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Nicholas U. Mayall has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
September 13, 2009	WikiProject peer review	Reviewed
October 11, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed
October 25, 2009	Peer review	Reviewed
December 12, 2009	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
May 9, 2010	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
October 17, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 17, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that although color-blind, Nicholas U. Mayall* was better able to detect faint galaxies than most other astronomers?*
Current status: Good article

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