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Date	Process	Result
January 11, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
November 14, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
June 2, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
June 23, 2014	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
October 6, 2015	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
January 3, 2017	Peer review	Reviewed
April 26, 2017	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
May 6, 2017	Good article nominee	Listed
May 27, 2017	WikiProject A-class review	Approved
July 15, 2017	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 5, 2018	Peer review	Not reviewed
July 17, 2019	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
July 28, 2019	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
October 12, 2019	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 22, 2020	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

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Section sizes

Section size for Crusades (30 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,361	3,361
Terminology	2,202	2,202
Crusades and the Holy Land, 1095–1291	330	89,529
Background	5,318	5,318
First Crusade	9,030	9,030
Early 12th century	14,347	14,347
Second Crusade	7,142	17,224
Nūr-ad-Din and the rise of Saladin	6,349	6,349
Fall of Jerusalem	3,733	3,733
Third Crusade	5,889	5,889
Fourth Crusade	3,303	3,303
Fifth Crusade	6,286	6,286
Sixth Crusade	7,077	7,077
The Crusades of 1239–1241	6,167	6,167
The Seventh Crusade	9,996	9,996
The final crusades	2,552	2,552
Decline and fall of the Crusader States	2,010	2,010
Other crusades	9,882	9,882
Crusading movement	2,615	2,615
Military orders	2,106	2,106
Art and architecture	4,469	4,469
Financing	2,067	2,067
Legacy	1,191	1,191
Historiography	2,066	8,494
Primary sources	3,593	3,593
Secondary sources	2,005	2,005
Tertiary sources	830	830
See also	443	443
References	33	33
Bibliography	11,232	11,232
Total	137,624	137,624

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