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ALS has been listed as one of the Natural sciences 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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Date	Process	Result
November 28, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed
August 28, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed

Current status: Good article

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about ALS.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 2 times. The weeks in which this happened:

August 17 to 23, 2014 (2nd)
August 24 to 30, 2014 (2nd)

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

Niall McCarthy (September 8). "Ice Bucket Challenge: ALS Wikipedia Page Views Increase 18-Fold". Forbes. Retrieved September 18, 2014. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

On 1 December 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to ALS. The result of the discussion was moved.