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Croatia was one of the Geography and places 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.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 28, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
March 22, 2021	Peer review	Reviewed
January 27, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 8, 2004, June 25, 2005, June 25, 2006, October 8, 2007, October 8, 2008, October 8, 2009, October 8, 2010, October 8, 2011, October 8, 2012, October 8, 2013, October 8, 2014, and August 5, 2019.
Current status: Delisted good article

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This article was copy edited by Folklore1, a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, on October 25, 2011.Guild of Copy EditorsWikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsTemplate:WikiProject Guild of Copy EditorsGuild of Copy Editors

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Section sizes

Section size for Croatia (44 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	14,146	14,146
Etymology	3,415	3,415
History	43	66,986
Prehistory and antiquity	5,875	5,875
Middle Ages	10,141	10,141
Union with Hungary and Austria	9,962	9,962
The World Wars and Yugoslavia	19,371	19,371
Independence	21,594	21,594
Geography	4,711	14,468
Climate	2,852	2,852
Biodiversity	6,905	6,905
Governance	2,656	25,872
Law and judicial system	4,574	4,574
Foreign relations	4,099	4,099
Croatian diaspora	2,278	2,278
Military	7,188	7,188
Administrative divisions	5,077	5,077
Economy	5,636	25,848
Tourism	6,153	6,153
Infrastructure	569	14,059
Motorways	2,848	2,848
Railways	2,175	2,175
Pelješac Bridge	1,211	1,211
Aviation	2,749	2,749
Ports	2,070	2,070
Energy	2,437	2,437
Demographics	9,146	28,845
Religion	2,406	2,406
Languages	4,977	4,977
Education	8,271	8,271
Healthcare	4,045	4,045
Language	3,734	3,734
Culture	5,382	37,723
Arts, literature, and music	8,578	8,578
Media	8,539	8,539
Film Industry	7,016	7,016
Cuisine	2,051	2,051
Sports	6,157	6,157
Technology	895	895
See also	117	117
Explanatory notes	48	48
Citations	34	34
General and cited references	8,620	8,620
External links	1,080	1,080
Total	231,831	231,831

GAR

Croatia

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Result: Delist as doesn't meet GA criteria 2 or 3 (insufficient citations and lack of recent updates). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article has "This section needs to be updated" tags in five sections: Economy, Transport, Demographics, Education, Sports, and As of 2019, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration employed 1,381[needs update]. It also has "needs additional citations for verification" tag for Sports, and a 'citation needed' in Healthcare section. 'clarification needed' is in Independent Croatia (1991–present) section. With 6 big orange templates article needs work to remain a GA. Artem.G (talk) 19:00, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Slightly longer than preferable, and with some oversubsectioning. However, overall not a bad article as far as country articles go, hopefully this can be fixed. CMD (talk) 07:54, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delist: sections need to be updated, while citations are needed in selected places. As CMD noted, should be fairly easy to get back to GA standard, should someone wish to. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Images

I've gone ahead for the fourth time and remove some images that are causing sandwiching and other concerns as outlined at Wikipedia:Image dos and don'ts. Moxy🍁 22:52, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article

Does this article meet all the criteria needed to be nominated for a good article? Joško Ruveneš (talk) 03:30, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say no. At a glance, it lacks some referencing and some updating (says last presidential elections were in 2020) at the minimum. If one were to pursue improvements to the article, I think it would be beneficial to shorten it by summarizing sections where possible, moving summarized material to appropriate articles, moving a significant number of images elsewhere (e.g. map of dialects is hardly sought by casual readers). Citation style should be made uniform and, once all of the above is done, the article prose would probably need a thorough copyedit. Tomobe03 (talk) 09:52, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]