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 essential articles. This is one of eleven Level 4 sub-lists of ten thousand articles and is currently under construction.
Articles are labelled as:
- Featured articles
- Former featured articles
- A-class articles
- Good articles
- Delisted good articles
- Failed good article nominees
- B-class articles
- C-class articles
- Start-class articles
- Stub-class articles
- List-class articles
- Unassessed articles
The progress bar is auto-updated via category count, and the symbols and article counts are updated daily by User:cewbot. Please read the FAQ before modifying the article list.
This list is tailored to the English-language Wikipedia. There is also a list of ten 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.
History (684 articles)
Basics (3 articles)
History by continent and region (18 articles)
History by country (41 articles)
Africa (6 articles)
Americas (6 articles)
Oceania (1 article) |
Asia (13 articles) |
Europe (15 articles)
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Prehistory (15 articles)
Ancient history (127 articles)
Post-classical history (133 articles)
Early modern history (93 articles)
Late modern history (171 articles)
Historical cities (31 articles)
Africa (6 articles)Americas (5 articles) |
Asia (16 articles) |
Europe (4 articles)
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History by subject matter (39 articles)
- History of art (Level 3)
- History of science (Level 2)
- History of technology (Level 3)
- History of agriculture (Level 3)
- History of literature (Level 3)
- History of mathematics (Level 3)
- History of medicine (Level 3)
- History of music (Level 3)
- History of communication
- History of economic thought
- History of human sexuality
- History of religion
- History of games
- History of sport
- Legal history
- Military history (Level 3)
Auxiliary historical sciences (13 articles)