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Macau 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
May 17, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
July 7, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 16, 2007	Good article reassessment	Kept
November 18, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
December 13, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 26, 2008	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 16, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
June 18, 2016	Good article nominee	Not listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on December 20, 2004, December 20, 2005, December 20, 2006, December 20, 2007, December 20, 2008, December 20, 2009, December 20, 2011, December 20, 2012, December 20, 2016, December 20, 2019, and December 20, 2023.
Current status: Delisted good article

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Find correct name The airport is not listed as João Paulo II anywhere. The airport's own website calls itself simply Ponta Delgada, and has no mention of João Paulo.

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Template:Regions of Portugal: statistical (NUTS3) subregions and intercommunal entities are confused; they are not the same in all regions, and should be sublisted separately in each region: intermunicipal entities are sometimes larger and split by subregions (e.g. the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon has two subregions), some intercommunal entities are containing only parts of subregions. All subregions should be listed explicitly and not assume they are only intermunicipal entities (which accessorily are not statistic subdivisions but real administrative entities, so they should be listed below, probably using a smaller font: we can safely eliminate the subgrouping by type of intermunicipal entity from this box).

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This article has previously been nominated to be moved.

Move logs: Macau
Macao

Discussions:

RM, Macau → Macao, No consensus, 15 December 2004, Talk:Macau/Archive 1#Macau → Macao
RM, Macau → Macao, No consensus, 8 July 2018, Talk:Macau/Archive 3#Requested move 8 July 2018

This article is written in Hong Kong English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, travelled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

Macao Exempted from the Gold Trading Rules of Bretton Woods[edit]

This is a major historical event which has been omitted from the article. There is a reference online at http://www.macaubusiness.com/news/opinion/what-price-freedom/519/

But I am not sure where to put it in the article.

GA Reassessment[edit]

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Macau/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

This orange-tagged article clearly fails criteria 2b. There are many paragraphs lacking citations. I brought this issue up at the talk page a while ago, but there doesn't seem to be much interest.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 17:01, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Result: Delist - It's been a week. There doesn't appear to be much interest in improving the article.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 18:51, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Giant image of Guangdong in the middle of the article[edit]

In the geography section, there is a humongous image of Guangdong with major cities surrounding Macau listed. I think this image should be removed or resized to be a lot smaller because I feel its current size is a bit distracting. LittleCuteSuit (talk)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 15:11, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the flag of macau so big on the info box?[edit]

why it's humongous. 90.240.247.173 (talk) 17:45, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's a mobile site / app bug that's present on all country / territory articles. Yue🌙 00:35, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should this article be written in Hong Kong English?[edit]

Macao is not a English region at all. The requirement that this article should be written in Hong Kong English looks really weird (especially when China is written in American English instead of Hong Kong English). John Smith Ri (talk) 01:05, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hong Kong English is more commonly used in Macau than any other variant of English, and certainly not American English. Yue🌙 01:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]