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Flappy Bird was one of the Video games 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
February 25, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed
March 25, 2014	Good article reassessment	Delisted
September 26, 2014	Good article nominee	Not listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 20, 2014. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the creator of Flappy Bird* received death threats after pulling it?*
Current status: Delisted good article

This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report. The week in which this happened:

February 9 to 15, 2014

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Wired article on easy of making Flappy Bird clones
"The Flight of the Birdman: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out". RollingStone. 11-03-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-unflappable-brilliance-of-flappy-bird
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/10/flappy-bird-is-dead-but-brilliant-mechanics-made-it-fly