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The Iron Giant has been listed as one of the Media and drama 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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January 17, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed

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Archer, Jacque Day (2006). "The Iron Giant: A Gun with a Soul". In Hogan, David J (ed.). Science Fiction America: Essays on SF Cinema. McFarland. pp. 256–268. ISBN 0786421495.
Ridgely, Charlie (July 26, 2018). "'Iron Giant' Director Brad Bird Reveals Why There Was Never a Sequel". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
Desowitz, Bill (2019-08-06). "'The Iron Giant' Is a Classic, But Brad Bird Still Accepts Some Blame For Its Box Office". IndieWire. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
"The Digital 50". The Hollywood Reporter. 2007-11-12. Retrieved 2026-03-20.

GA concerns

Latest comment: 4 months ago5 comments3 people in discussion

This article became a good article back in 2008, which was 18 years ago and the GA standards have drastically changed since then. We may need to update this article as a whole to match the current GA standards.

Also, if we were going to get this to peer review and an FA in the future after any potential issues have been addressed, we can feature it as a TFA on August 6 (the anniversary of its official release). Any thoughts or ideas on how we should do this? Thanks, sjones23 (talk - contributions) 18:04, 18 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I would be happy to do a thorough copyedit of the entire page in preparation for a GA reassessment, but that wouldn't include locating and adding new content which may be needed, except on a very small scale. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 04:40, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hopefully, we may or may not nominate it for GAR depending on the situation.

If we do update it to match the current GA standards, we can ask for a potential peer review and then take it to an FAC as needed. sjones23 (talk - contributions) 06:40, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Sjones23 and OrdinaryOtter: Circling back to this: the "Legacy" section needs a lot of work as there are lots of uncited statements and one-sentence paragraphs. Is work continuing on this? Z1720 (talk) 04:30, 18 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
I can take a look at it sometime this week. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 04:54, 18 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

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