Wikipedia:Vital articles
Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement. The most important articles are in Level 1.
This page constitutes Level 3 of the vital articles list and includes 1,000 articles. All articles from higher levels are also included in lower levels; all 100 subjects on the Level 2 list (shown on this page in bold font) are included here in Level 3, and the Level 2 list includes the 10 subjects on Level 1 (shown on this page in bold italics). A larger Level 4 list of 10,000 articles also exists, and a Level 5 list of 50,000 articles is in the process of being created.
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, as well as Vital Article lists tailored to different Wikipedia languages accessible via the languages sidebar.
Articles should not be added or removed from this list without a consensus on the talk page. For more information on this list and the process for adding or removing articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
Articles are labelled as:
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Former featured articles
A-class articles
Good articles
Delisted good articles
B-class articles
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Failed good article nominees- A full list is at Template:Icon/doc
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Summary
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Last updated by C933103 (talk) 16:46, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
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Total 998 articles.
| Class | #Articles |
|---|---|
 GA |
129 |
 B |
370 |
 DGA |
82 |
 C |
413 |
 FFA |
77 |
 FA |
71 |
 FGAN |
114 |
 A |
2 |
 Start |
13 |
 Unassessed |
1 |
| FFAC |
3 |
 FFLC |
1 |
Current total (998 articles)
People (113 articles)
History (83 articles)
General (4 articles)History by region (9 articles)
History by subject (11 articles)
Prehistory (4 articles) |
Ancient history (18 articles)Post-classical history (13 articles) |
Modern history (24 articles)
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Geography (106 articles)
General (1 article)Continents and regions (11 articles)
Terrestrial features (12 articles)Hydrological features (19 articles) |
Countries (43 articles) |
Cities (20 articles)
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Arts (45 articles)
General (5 articles)Artistic movements (4 articles)Architecture (3 articles) |
Literature (8 articles)Music (9 articles)
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Performing arts (5 articles)Visual arts (11 articles)
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Philosophy and religion (55 articles)
Philosophy (17 articles)General (2 articles)Philosophical branches and concepts (12 articles)Philosophy by region and period (3 articles) |
Mythology (2 articles)Religion (13 articles) |
Specific religions (23 articles)Abrahamic religions (11 articles)East Asian religions (3 articles)Indian religions (8 articles)Other religions (1 article)
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Everyday life (57 articles)
General (4 articles)Family and kinship (10 articles)Sexuality and gender (6 articles) |
Food and drink (22 articles) |
Recreation and entertainment (15 articles)
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Society and social sciences (146 articles)
General (13 articles)Politics and government (25 articles)Conflict (4 articles)Education (4 articles) |
Business and economics (22 articles)Social issues (21 articles)
Law (6 articles) |
Psychology (16 articles)
Language (31 articles)Media (4 articles)
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Health, medicine and disease (41 articles)
Illness and injury (19 articles) |
Health, fitness, and medicine (13 articles) |
Drugs and medication (9 articles)
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Science (209 articles)
General (5 articles)Astronomy (26 articles)
Physics (41 articles) |
Biology (82 articles) |
Chemistry (32 articles)Earth science (23 articles)
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Technology (98 articles)
General (4 articles)Energy (14 articles)Food and health (10 articles)
Weapons (6 articles) |
Tools and machinery (9 articles)Media and communication (10 articles)Computing and information technology (4 articles)Electronics (4 articles)Space (5 articles) |
Transportation (6 articles)Structures (6 articles)Materials (9 articles)Optical (5 articles)
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Mathematics (45 articles)
General (5 articles)Counting and numbers (12 articles) |
Algebra (5 articles)Analysis (5 articles)Arithmetic (4 articles) |
Geometry and topology (12 articles)Probability and statistics (2 articles)
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See also
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vital Articles
- Wikipedia:List of 100 Art concepts Wikipedia should have
- Category:Top-importance articles
- Automated classification of article importance - similar project on Wikimedia
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
- m:Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia in a box
- m:Internet-in-a-Box
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- Meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have