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
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.
Everyday life (477 articles)
Clothing and fashion (36 articles)
Cooking, food and drink (120 articles)
For fruits, vegetables, herbs and animals kept for food, see Biology/Organisms
Basics (13 articles)Cuisine (9 articles)Food types (21 articles) |
Preparation and serving (15 articles)Meat and other animal products (16 articles)Dairy and analogues (9 articles) |
Grains (4 articles)Seasonings and condiments (12 articles)Drinks (21 articles)Non-alcoholic drinks (7 articles)Alcoholic drinks (14 articles)
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Family and kinship (49 articles)
General (12 articles)Interpersonal relationships (8 articles) |
Marriage and parenting (18 articles) |
Family members (11 articles)
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Household items (19 articles)
For appliances, see Household appliances
Furniture and interior design (11 articles) |
Cooking and eating (8 articles)
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Sexuality and gender (33 articles)
Stages of life (10 articles)
Sports and recreation (210 articles)
Entertainment (69 articles)
Media-based entertainment are in other categories: Literature (books, plays), Performing arts (theater, ballet etc.), Mass Media (television), and Visual arts (movies and comics).
Entertainment and leisure (14 articles)
Recreation and tourism (8 articles)Toys (12 articles) |
Games (35 articles)
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Sports (141 articles)
Basics (14 articles)Team sports (36 articles) |
Athletics (14 articles)Skating (5 articles)Water sports (10 articles)Combat sport and martial arts (15 articles) |
Other individual sports (47 articles)
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