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Death Note was one of the Language and literature 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
December 15, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
June 25, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Johnston, Chris (November 2007). "Death Note Volume 1". Newtype USA. Vol. 6, no. 11. A.D. Vision. p. 92. ISSN 1541-4817. Archived from the original on March 30, 2008. – Old link at the Wayback Machine (archived November 9, 2007)

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Merger proposal

I propose merging Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases into this article, as notability concerns dating back to September 2018 have been raised. In addition, its plot section can be easily merged into this article with no issues. MiasmaEternal☎ 23:34, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose While I certainly don't deny that is a poor stub article, it does have a review in Anime News Network [1] and IGN [2], so it meets WP:NBOOK 1. More reviews may exist too, this is just what I found in a quick search. Link20XX (talk) 00:08, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Protecting page

Can someone please protect this page so that little kids can stop vandalising it? Thanks! 2A00:23C8:8703:C601:28E9:D3C4:4319:DFD5 (talk) 18:19, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Russia

Didn't Russia ban Death Note and other animes. 151.18.101.71 (talk) 06:27, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

youtube and viz media

hi, viz media lets north american internet users stream this for free via youtube, should that be mentioned somewhere with sources?

they took a bunch of video files, and uploaded them Libreleah (talk) 04:49, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Imitations of the series" contains obsolete racial classification

In the "Legacy and controversies" category, under "Imitations of the series" is contained this text:

"[...] two notes written with Latin characters stating "Watashi wa Kira dess" [sic], a mis-transliteration of "I am Kira" (私はキラです, Watashi wa Kira desu),[157] were found near the partial remains of a Caucasian male in Belgium."

It also links to the "Caucasian race" page, which itself states it to be an "obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological", correctly so. The term is a misnomer commonly used to mean "white" in some Western countries, but it has other meanings in other countries, and as a Russian, my first thought and impression was that the remains were of a person of Caucasus background (which would probably be very difficult to figure out from just decaying thighs).

However, while the news article mainly refers to it as human remains, of human origin and as male thighs, it does at one point say they belonged to a man "de race caucasienne (blanc)". But does this justify using that misnomer in the article? Or would it be better to refer to it as just being male/human remains? I'd like to hear what you think. — Drunk Experiter (Kanni, she/her) (talk) 18:00, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]