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On 10 January 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from EastEnders Live (2025 episode) to EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week. The result of the discussion was moved.

A fact from EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 April 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the BBC soap opera EastEnders, viewers were given the opportunity to vote on the outcome of a love triangle storyline?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week.

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EastEnders will go live in 2025

EastEnders will broadcast live for it's 40th anniversary in February 2025 NetflixEditor2022 (talk) 21:45, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 10 January 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Moved to EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week (closed by non-admin page mover) Frost 05:16, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

EastEnders Live (2025 episode) → 40th Anniversary Week – While the live episode was initially announced as the entirety of the celebration, subsequent developments and coverage have made it clear that the entire 40th Anniversary Week is the actual notable event. The week as a whole has gained notability, which is demonstrated in the article itself as the only sources which focus exclusively on the live episode itself are the first few announcements, which were all that existed when this article was first created, making the article progressively more unfocused. It is now more accurate to present the week as a cohesive celebration, with the live episode as a key component, rather than focusing solely on the live broadcast. Many of the sources refer to this event as the "40th Anniversary Weeek", hence why it is the new name I have chosen. The live episode can still be covered in this article. FishLoveHam (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support, I was actually going to propose this myself. However, I wanted to suggest EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week as there are various other soaps, TV programs and other factors that either already have articles or have them in development. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 06:48, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the suggestion, I support EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week as the new title FishLoveHam (talk) 19:37, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I agree with DDOOL that using EastEnders in the title makes sense to quickly distinguish it between other shows with a 40th anniversary. It will serve a better purpose as a anniversary collective article at present. I really did think it was a joke the article was created so far in advance and with one source. At least it now has more sources and will continue to develop into something more.Rain the 1 22:47, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nominator. I would also go with EastEnders 40th Anniversary Week, which matches EastEnders Live Week for the 30th. - JuneGloom07 Talk 19:20, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I’m in agreement with the nomination. I’d actually put forward EastEnders 40 as a possible title in line with the promotional material released by the show (see [1] for an example). Soaper1234 - talk 22:30, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 22:47, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the BBC soap opera EastEnders, viewers were given the opportunity to vote on the outcome of a love triangle storyline?

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Improved to Good Article status by FishLoveHam (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

FishLoveHam (talk) 06:19, 31 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Page was promoted to GA recently enough. Page is long enough. Earwig finds no plagiarism. The source verifies the hook (although I will say that the source doesn't specifically use the phrase "love triangle", it's clearly describing one). Hook is interesting and short enough. QPQ is not necessary. Seems good to me. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 20:11, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "EastEnders viewers get the power to decide Denise's fate in 40th anniversary special". BBC Media Centre. 6 January 2025. Archived from the original on 9 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

[1] "EastEnders viewers get the power to decide Denise's fate in 40th anniversary special". BBC Media Centre. 6 January 2025. Archived from the original on 9 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

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