Vital articles Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most important articles. There are approximately one thousand articles on this page, which form Level 3 of the Vital articles list and include all 100 subjects on the Level 2 list (which in turn includes the ten Level 1 subjects), which are marked in bold. A Level 4 list of ten thousand articles is currently under construction.
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This list is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of one thousand articles considered vital to Wikipedias of all languages.
For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page .
Current total: 1000 [ edit ] Last updated by Cobblet (talk ) 22:21, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
People (133 articles) [ edit ]
Artists (10 articles) [ edit ] Writers (18 articles) [ edit ] Composers and musicians (10 articles) [ edit ] Filmmakers (4 articles) [ edit ] Businesspeople (1 article) [ edit ] Explorers (8 articles) [ edit ] Inventors and scientists (20 articles) [ edit ]
Mathematicians (10 articles) [ edit ] Philosophers and social scientists (16 articles) [ edit ] Religious figures (10 articles) [ edit ] Politicians and leaders (26 articles) [ edit ]
History (75 articles) [ edit ]
General (5 articles) [ edit ] Prehistory to post-classical history (33 articles) [ edit ]
Modern history (22 articles) [ edit ] History by region (9 articles) [ edit ] Histories of other subjects (6 articles) [ edit ]
Geography (92 articles) [ edit ]
General (1 article) [ edit ] Human geography (52 articles) [ edit ]
Continents and regions (10 articles) [ edit ] Hydrological features (17 articles) [ edit ] Terrestrial features (12 articles) [ edit ]
Arts and culture (56 articles) [ edit ]
General (4 articles) [ edit ] Artistic movements (6 articles) [ edit ] Architecture (9 articles) [ edit ] Literature (11 articles) [ edit ]
Music (9 articles) [ edit ] Performing arts (9 articles) [ edit ] Visual arts (8 articles) [ edit ]
Philosophy and religion (60 articles) [ edit ]
Philosophy (22 articles) [ edit ]
Philosophy Level 2 )Philosophical branches
Philosophy by region and period
Philosophical movements
Religion (15 articles) [ edit ]
Specific religions (23 articles) [ edit ]
Everyday life (54 articles) [ edit ]
General (18 articles) [ edit ] Recreation and entertainment (13 articles) [ edit ]
Food and drink (23 articles) [ edit ]
Society and social sciences (140 articles) [ edit ]
General (8 articles) [ edit ] Social issues (29 articles) [ edit ] Language (28 articles) [ edit ] Media (7 articles) [ edit ]
Business and economics (24 articles) [ edit ] Politics and government (29 articles) [ edit ] Psychology (15 articles) [ edit ]
Health and medicine (38 articles) [ edit ]
Illness (21 articles) [ edit ]
Health and fitness (13 articles) [ edit ] Pharmaceuticals (4 articles) [ edit ]
Science (190 articles) [ edit ]
General (4 articles) [ edit ] Astronomy (26 articles) [ edit ] Biology (64 articles) [ edit ]
Chemistry (32 articles) [ edit ] Earth science (23 articles) [ edit ] Physics (41 articles) [ edit ]
Technology (109 articles) [ edit ]
General (5 articles) [ edit ] Energy (10 articles) [ edit ] Electronics (6 articles) [ edit ] Mechanical and structural engineering (18 articles) [ edit ] Transportation (6 articles) [ edit ] Computing and information technology (6 articles) [ edit ] Optical (5 articles) [ edit ]
Media and communication (9 articles) [ edit ] Navigation and timekeeping (7 articles) [ edit ] Weapons (9 articles) [ edit ] Material and chemical (12 articles) [ edit ] Food, agriculture and health (10 articles) [ edit ] Space (6 articles) [ edit ]
Mathematics (53 articles) [ edit ] See also [ edit ] View counts [ edit ]
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