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	Karachi was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. 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 April 9, 2006 Good article nominee Listed July 25, 2006 Good article reassessment Delisted November 12, 2006 Featured article candidate Not promoted January 5, 2008 Good article nominee Not listed July 7, 2011 Good article nominee Not listed November 21, 2022 Good article nominee Not listed Current status: Former good article nominee

Text and/or other creative content from Karachi was copied or moved into Transport in Karachi with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

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To-do list for Karachi: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2008-01-09 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Media section - local newspapers, television stations, radio stations Cleanup : Check for discrepancies and factual errors, plus image copyright tags Copyedit : Refer to Copyeditors League after through internal review Expand : Culture section - annual cultural events, sites of interest, religion, local food and drink, local customs Education section - educational statistics, other schools, and libraries Infobox : Generic infobox added Y NPOV : Eliminate the use of flowery tourist-guide language Verify : Find and add citations from reliable sources Wikify : Avoid sections not used by other good and featured articles Other : Standardise all references

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Here is a webpage which has a complete list of Postal Codes in Karachi according to their area names and GPOs along with their maps, I wanted to suggest you to add this page in the references section. Webpage: "https://pakistanpostalcode.org/karachi-postal-code/" Abbasi Zada (talk) 10:35, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

 Note: This would be more appropriate in the Postal codes in Pakistan article. M.Bitton (talk) 21:02, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: Sufficient sourcing seems to exist already for that is appropriate for this article. Skynxnex (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)