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 subjects on the Level 2 (and Level 1) list, which are marked in bold. A Level 4 list of ten thousand articles is currently under construction.
These symbols are updated manually and may be out of date; you are encouraged to fix any errors you discover.
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.
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