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Joker (character) has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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February 3, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
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May 15, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
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May 11, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
August 15, 2015	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
January 23, 2017	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
Current status: Good article

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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Weldon, Glen (2016). The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-5669-1. (TheJoebro64 has a copy)

Alternative versions of Joker was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 21 August 2023 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Joker (character). 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.

On 8 November 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved to Joker (DC Comics). The result of the discussion was not moved.

This article was nominated for deletion on January 8, 2017. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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Notable aliases

Why is only "Red Hood" listed? Is this alias more notable than the Martha Wayne one for some reasons? Redjedi23 (talk) 16:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Joe Kerr" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Joe Kerr has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 7 § Joe Kerr until a consensus is reached. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:37, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA concerns

I am concerned that this article no longer meets the good article criteria. Some of my concerns are listed below:

There is a lot of uncited text throughout the article
At over 12,000 words, WP:TOOBIG says that it could possibly be trimmed. I think some information can be moved to other articles, and the information summarised here.
There are several unreliable sources used as inline citations, such as WP:WHATCULTURE and cracked.com

Is anyone willing to address these concerns, or should this go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 21:19, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first two points are entirely because of the forced integration of the Alternative versions of the Joker article, which is also entirely unsourced. Remove that section and there's no problem. The other references were perfectly fine when it went through GA and are hardly a reason to take it to GAR. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 21:43, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Darkwarriorblake: Thanks for removing a lot of the uncited statements. For the two references cited above, is someone able to replace them with better, reliable sources? Z1720 (talk) 23:18, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Joker persona" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Joker persona has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 9 § Joker persona until a consensus is reached. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 21:59, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]