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MacOS was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 28, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
November 28, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
February 15, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
November 27, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted
February 22, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed
March 11, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed
August 30, 2014	Good article reassessment	Delisted
January 25, 2018	Good article nominee	Not listed
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on March 24, 2004.
Current status: Delisted good article

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Need a new redirect tag for macOS

The software, macOS, is now onto version 11. So it shouldn't be called OSX anymore, X letter meaning the older version 10. So there should be a new redirect tag leading to this macOS page. Is the word "macOS" okay, or is it 1-2 digits too long? ObiKKa (talk) 06:17, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by a "redirect tag"? Mac OS X, OS X, and OSX all redirect to macOS, and have done so for quite a while, given that the OS has been called "macOS" ever since macOS 10.12 Sierra, several years before macOS 11 Big Sur. Guy Harris (talk) 06:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unreadable header image resolution

I severely doubt Apple is going to sue Wikipedia for a screenshot of their operating system, considering screenshots/videos of macOS and iOS have appeared in thousands of places across all media types, including media made with profit in mind. I'm not sure why we're stuck with pictures that are lower resolution than computers from the 90s. This has been enacted across all pages related to macOS, destroying what used to be very pretty and readable pictures. This also clutters Google images. Machintosh-hd (talk) 01:31, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because Wikipedia follows Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. - Aoidh (talk) 02:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

capitalization at article beginning

The first word of a sentence is always capitalized even if the particular word isn't always--dchmelik☀️🦉🐝🐍(talk|contrib) 04:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters that is primarily true, though exceptions exist and per MOS:TMCAPS this seems to be one of them. - Aoidh (talk) 16:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Build number for latest macOS Sonoma is incorrect

The build number found in Template:MacOS versions at the column "Most recent version" in the "macOS 14" row is incorrect. It should be "23G80" instead of the existing "23F80". Please see https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/?id=07232024d Lalov001 (talk) 00:25, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]