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Octopus card is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 13, 2005.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 3, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
February 10, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
January 18, 2007	Featured article review	Demoted
May 31, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
July 4, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
August 3, 2007	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 16, 2022	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

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WP:URFA/2020

I am reviewing this (old or very old) FA as part of

WP:FAR. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:40, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply

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etymology

the etymology section could probably be made more concise, even just by referencing the Chinese version of this article. Archaaron (talk) 19:00, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]