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Elephant is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 5, 2013, and on August 12, 2023.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
April 5, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
September 28, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
October 28, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
December 31, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
February 20, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
August 11, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
November 5, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
December 8, 2012	Peer review	Reviewed
January 30, 2013	Featured article candidate	Promoted
Current status: Featured article

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Olifant was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 30 October 2009 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Elephant on November 2009. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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