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William Wilberforce 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 August 6, 2008.

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Date	Process	Result
April 8, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
April 17, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
July 18, 2008	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 31, 2008	WikiProject A-class review	Not approved
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