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Banff National Park is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 15, 2006.

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Date	Process	Result
August 12, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
September 9, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
June 12, 2016	Featured article review	Kept
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TFA reruns

Any objections to throwing this article into the current pile of potential TFA reruns (currently being developed at User:Dank/Sandbox/2)? Any cleanup needed, apart from the 11 dead or dubious links? MONGO, did you want to have a look at this one? - Dank (push to talk) 23:47, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Will look it over next 72 hours. If I don't prod me again.--MONGO 04:36, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Dank: Came here now to check these dead links and that tool is apparently down. I shall check again in a day or two.--MONGO 20:09, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

They said it would be up and down for a few days. - Dank (push to talk) 20:44, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, commenced fixing these dead citations...will work on the rest in a few days as I can find time.--MONGO 21:49, 13 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Tourism

This Article is already rated as a FA class article so I am hesitant to edit it, however it seems to lean heavily towards describing the history and biodiversity of the park (which is good) but is completely lacking on the tourism section which should explain what kind of facilities, infrastructure and attractions tourists can expect to find in the park as well as more information on how one can travel to and around the park. Since Jasper National Park is still a Start Class Article I am going to work on improving it first, however I would like to know if anybody has any thoughts or objections to a major expansion of the tourism section of this article. IDrive201 (talk) 01:39, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TFA?

It would be nice to rerun this at WP:Today's featured article, but there's a fair amount of uncited text. Anyone want to look at that? - Dank (push to talk) 02:06, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]