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Western African Ebola epidemic 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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October 31, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 17, 2016. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that during the West African Ebola virus epidemic* as many as 15 different vaccines were in development?*
A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on January 14, 2016.
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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination.

Move logs: 2014 Guinea Ebola outbreak
2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak
2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak

Discussions:

Informal, 2014 West Africa Ebola virus outbreak → Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, Moved, 31 August 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 2#Page direct
RM, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, No consensus, 8 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 6#Requested move

Older discussions:

Informal, 2014 Guinea Ebola outbreak → 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, Moved, 1 April 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 2#Better title?
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa, No conclusion, 8 September 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 3#Name of article
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 West Africa Ebola virus epidemic, No conclusion, 9 September 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 4#Article title/RfC
Informal, 2014 Ebola pandemic → Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, Moved, 11 September 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 4#"Pandemic" rename
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → [removal of geographical qualifier], No conclusion, 30 September 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 5#First USA case
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, No conclusion, 1 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 5#Time to move the article?
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 Ebola Pandemic, No conclusion, 1 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 5#Article rename suggestions (for the likely near-future)
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 Ebola virus epidemic, No conclusion, 3 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 5#Propose Move
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → Ebola virus pandemic / 2014 Ebola outbreak / 2014 Ebola epidemic / Ebola virus epidemic, Closed and directed to RM, 6 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 6#Page name and scope
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → Ebola virus outbreak 2014, No conclusion, 7 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 6#Page name
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 Ebola Crisis, Closed and directed to RM, 9 October 2014, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 6#Title Change
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → 2014 Ebola Virus epidemic, Closed and directed to RM, 9 October 2014 Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 6#Changing the Title from Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa to "2014 Ebola Virus Epidemic
Informal, Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa → [unspecified], No conclusion, 30 June 2015, Talk:Western African Ebola epidemic/Archive 10#Too much

This article was submitted to WikiJournal of Medicine for external peer review in 30 October 2018 (reviewer reports). It was published as Osmin Anis; et al. (11 May 2019). "Western African Ebola virus epidemic". WikiJournal of Medicine. 6 (1): 1. doi:10.15347/WJM/2019.001. ISSN 2002-4436. Wikidata Q63740114.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) and the updated content was reintegrated into the Wikipedia page under a CC BY-SA-3.0 license (2019).

On 25 June 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Western African Ebola virus epidemic to Western African Ebola epidemic. The result of the discussion was moved.

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