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.
Article in the Vital list have their assessment labelled as:
- Featured articles
- Former featured articles
- A-class articles
- Good articles
- Delisted good articles
- Failed good article nominees
- B-class articles
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- Start-class articles
- Stub-class articles
- List-class articles
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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.
Philosophy and religion (438 articles)
- For philosophers, see People: Philosophers. For religious figures, see People: Religious figures
Philosophy (101 articles)
Basics (1 article)Philosophy by region and period (10 articles) |
Philosophical schools and traditions (9 articles)
Religious philosophy (3 articles)
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Philosophical branches, approaches and concepts (78 articles)
Ethics (19 articles)Concepts (12 articles)
Approaches (6 articles)Logic (12 articles) |
Epistemology (16 articles)Concepts (11 articles)
Approaches (4 articles)Metaphysics (14 articles)Concepts (7 articles)Approaches (6 articles) |
Aesthetics (2 articles)Philosophy of science (9 articles)
Other branches of philosophy (6 articles)
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Religion and spirituality (82 articles)
Basics (6 articles)Deity (3 articles)Practices (20 articles) |
Beliefs (16 articles)
Death (5 articles)Afterlife (8 articles) |
Institutions (10 articles)Theistic philosophies (10 articles)
Non-theistic philosophies (4 articles)
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Abrahamic religions (76 articles)
Main branches (7 articles)Common concepts (9 articles)Judaism (10 articles) |
Christianity (35 articles)Branches (24 articles)Concepts (11 articles) |
Islam (15 articles)
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Eastern religions (42 articles)
Major religions (7 articles)
Common concepts (10 articles) |
Hinduism (11 articles) |
Buddhism (9 articles)Sikhism (2 articles)Taoism (2 articles)Shinto (1 article)
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Other religions (29 articles)
General (7 articles) |
Ancient religions (12 articles) |
Western esotericism (3 articles)For heroes and characters, see under "Mythical and fictional people", for creatures, see under "Literature: Fictional worlds" New religious movements (7 articles)
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Mythology (108 articles)
General (3 articles)By culture (10 articles)
Abrahamic mythology (18 articles)
Chinese mythology (3 articles)Egyptian mythology (8 articles) |
Greco-Roman mythology (21 articles)Greek mythological heroes (5 articles)Greek deities (12 articles)Roman deities (4 articles)Hindu mythology (7 articles)Mesopotamian mythology (3 articles)Native American mythology (3 articles)Norse mythology (3 articles)Other mythology (3 articles)African mythology (1 article)Central Asia mythology (1 article)Shinto mythology (1 article) |
Mythological creatures (21 articles)
Mythological places (4 articles)Mythological items (1 article)
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