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Vital articles

The five nested vital article Levels are meant to give direction to the prioritization of improvements of English Wikipedia articles (e.g. which articles to bring to WP:GA and WP:FA status), to provide a measurement of quality of overall English Wikipedia (e.g. what proportion of the most important articles are at GA and FA status), and to serve as a centralized watchlist of English Wikipedia's most important articles. Unlike the list of articles every Wikipedia should have, they are tailored to the English Wikipedia and are actively maintained by the dedicated WikiProject Vital Articles. This page contains the 1,000 articles of the Level 3 list.

Any modification to this list should ONLY BE MADE after a discussion on the Level 3 talk page.

Level 1 (10 articles) < Level 2 (100 articles) < Level 3 (1,000 articles) < Level 4 (10,000 articles) < Level 5 (50,000 articles)

Improve a random Level 3 vital article

Current total

Last updated by starship.paint (RUN) 06:40, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

The following table summarizes the quality of the articles on this list. It is updated daily by Cewbot. Total 999 articles.

Class	#Articles
FA	73
GA	147
A	1
B	397
C	381
FFA	79
DGA	89
FFLC	1
NA	1

Level 3 vital articles

This section contains 999 articles out of a quota of 1000.

People

This section contains 111 articles.

Leaders and politicians

This section contains 27 articles.

• Hammurabi
• Ramesses II
• Cyrus the Great
• Alexander the Great
• Ashoka
• Qin Shi Huang
• Julius Caesar
• Cleopatra
• Augustus
• Charlemagne
• Genghis Khan
• Mansa Musa
• Timur
• Joan of Arc
• Suleiman the Magnificent
• Akbar
• Elizabeth I
• Catherine the Great
• George Washington
• Napoleon
• Simón Bolívar
• Abraham Lincoln
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Joseph Stalin
• Adolf Hitler
• Mao Zedong
• Nelson Mandela

Explorers

This section contains 7 articles.

• Marco Polo
• Zheng He
• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco da Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• James Cook
• Roald Amundsen

Artists

This section contains 6 articles.

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• Rembrandt
• Hokusai
• Pablo Picasso
• Vincent van Gogh

Philosophers and social scientists

This section contains 18 articles.

• Confucius
• Laozi
• Herodotus
• Socrates
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Cicero
• Thomas Aquinas
• Ibn Khaldun
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• René Descartes
• John Locke
• Adam Smith
• Immanuel Kant
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Karl Marx
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Sigmund Freud

Writers

This section contains 11 articles.

• Homer
• Virgil
• Li Bai
• Murasaki Shikibu
• Rumi
• Dante Alighieri
• Miguel de Cervantes
• William Shakespeare
• Voltaire
• Leo Tolstoy
• Rabindranath Tagore

Musicians

This section contains 6 articles.

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Louis Armstrong
• The Beatles
• Michael Jackson

Filmmakers

This section contains 2 articles.

• Charlie Chaplin
• Walt Disney

Scientists and inventors

This section contains 19 articles.

• Hippocrates
• Avicenna
• Shen Kuo
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton
• Carl Linnaeus
• Antoine Lavoisier
• Michael Faraday
• Charles Darwin
• Florence Nightingale
• Louis Pasteur
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Dmitri Mendeleev
• Thomas Edison
• Nikola Tesla
• Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein

Mathematicians

This section contains 8 articles.

• Archimedes
• Euclid
• Al-Khwarizmi
• Leonhard Euler
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Emmy Noether
• Kurt Gödel
• Alan Turing

Religious figures

This section contains 6 articles.

• The Buddha
• Jesus
• Paul the Apostle
• Muhammad
• Adi Shankara
• Martin Luther

Businesspeople

This section contains 1 article.

• Henry Ford

History

This section contains 84 articles.

History: General

This section contains 4 articles.

• History (Level 2)
  • Human history (Level 1)
• Civilization (Level 2)
• Archaeology

History by region

This section contains 9 articles.

• History of Africa
• History of Asia
  • History of East Asia
  • History of India
  • History of the Middle East
• History of Europe
• History of North America
• History of Oceania
• History of South America

History by subject

This section contains 12 articles.

• History of science (Level 2)
• History of art
• History of agriculture
• History of architecture
• History of film
• History of literature
• History of mathematics
• History of medicine
• History of music
• History of philosophy
• History of technology
• Military history

Prehistory

This section contains 4 articles.

• Prehistory (Level 2)
  • Stone Age
    • Early human migrations
    • Neolithic Revolution

Ancient history

This section contains 18 articles.

• Ancient history (Level 2)
  • Bronze Age
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Indus Valley Civilisation
    • Mesopotamia
      • Sumer
    • Phoenicia
  • Iron Age
    • Ancient Greece
    • Ancient Rome
    • Achaemenid Empire
    • Gupta Empire
    • Han dynasty
    • Silk Road
  • Pre-Columbian era
    • Andean civilizations
    • Mesoamerica
      • Maya civilization

Post-classical history

This section contains 13 articles.

• Post-classical history (Level 2)
  • Aztecs
  • Inca Empire
  • Islamic Golden Age
  • Middle Ages
    • Black Death
    • Byzantine Empire
    • Crusades
    • Holy Roman Empire
    • Viking Age
  • Mongol Empire
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Tang dynasty

Modern history

This section contains 24 articles.

• Early modern period (Level 2)
  • Renaissance
  • Age of Discovery
  • European colonization of the Americas
  • Western imperialism in Asia
  • Spanish Empire
  • Reformation
  • Mughal Empire
  • Scientific Revolution
  • Age of Enlightenment
• Late modern period
  • British Empire
  • American Revolution
  • French Revolution
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Scramble for Africa
  • World War I
  • Soviet Union
  • Great Depression
  • World War II
  • Contemporary history
  • Decolonization
  • Cold War
  • Information Age

Geography

This section contains 106 articles.

Geography: General

This section contains 1 article.

• Geography (Level 2)

Continents and regions

This section contains 11 articles.

• Continent
  • Africa (Level 2)
  • Antarctica
  • Asia (Level 2)
  • Europe (Level 2)
  • North America (Level 2)
  • South America (Level 2)
• Geographical regions
  • Arctic
  • Caribbean
  • Middle East
  • Oceania (Level 2)

Terrestrial features

This section contains 12 articles.

• Land (Level 2)
  • Desert
    • Sahara
  • Forest
    • Amazon rainforest
  • Grassland
  • Island
  • Mountain
    • Alps
    • Andes
    • Himalayas
    • Rocky Mountains

Hydrological features

This section contains 19 articles.

• Sea (Level 2)
  • Arctic Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean
    • Mediterranean Sea
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
    • Great Barrier Reef
  • Southern Ocean
• Lake
  • Caspian Sea
  • Great Lakes
  • Lake Victoria
• River
  • Amazon River
  • Ganges
  • Mississippi River
  • Nile
  • Yangtze
• Glacier

Countries

This section contains 43 articles.

• Country (Level 2)
• Africa
  • Algeria
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
  • Tanzania
• Asia
  • South Asia
    • Bangladesh
    • India
    • Pakistan
  • East Asia
    • China
    • Japan
    • South Korea
    • Taiwan
  • Southeast Asia
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Myanmar
    • Philippines
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
  • West Asia
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Turkey
    • United Arab Emirates
• Europe
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
• North America
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • United States
• Oceania
  • Australia
• South America
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Colombia

Cities

This section contains 20 articles.

• City (Level 2)
• Africa
  • Cairo
  • Lagos
• Asia
  • East Asia
    • Beijing
    • Hong Kong
    • Tokyo
  • Southeast Asia
    • Jakarta
    • Singapore
  • South Asia (India)
    • Delhi
    • Mumbai
  • West Asia (Middle East)
    • Istanbul
    • Jerusalem
    • Mecca
• Europe
  • London
  • Moscow
  • Paris
  • Rome
• North America
  • Mexico City
  • New York City
• South America
  • São Paulo

Arts

This section contains 43 articles.

Arts: General

This section contains 5 articles.

• The arts (Level 1)
• Art
  • Prehistoric art
• Fashion
• Museum

Artistic movements

This section contains 4 articles.

• Abstract art
• Modernism
• Realism
• Romanticism

Architecture

This section contains 3 articles.

• Architecture (Level 2)
  • Great Pyramid of Giza
  • Great Wall of China

Literature

This section contains 8 articles.

• Literature (Level 2)
  • English literature
• Fiction
  • Novel
  • Short story
    • Fairy tale
• Poetry
  • Epic poetry

Music

This section contains 8 articles.

• Music (Level 2)
• Musical instrument
• Singing
• Musical genres
  • Classical music
  • Folk music
  • Jazz
  • Pop music
  • Rock music

Performing arts

This section contains 5 articles.

• Performing arts (Level 2)
  • Dance
  • Opera
  • Orchestra
  • Theatre

Visual arts

This section contains 10 articles.

• Visual arts (Level 2)
  • Film
  • Animation
  • Comics
  • Design
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Pottery
  • Sculpture

Philosophy and religion

This section contains 57 articles.

Philosophy

This section contains 17 articles.

Philosophy: General

This section contains 2 articles.

• Philosophy (Level 1)
  • Philosophy of science

Philosophical branches and concepts

This section contains 12 articles.

• Aesthetics
• Epistemology
  • Knowledge (Level 2)
  • Belief
  • Reason
  • Truth
• Ethics (Level 2)
  • Good and evil
• Logic (Level 2)
• Metaphysics
  • Free will
  • Ontology

Philosophy by region and period

This section contains 3 articles.

• Eastern philosophy
  • Confucianism
• Western philosophy

Mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

• Myth
  • Greek mythology

Religion

This section contains 13 articles.

• Religion (Level 2)
  • Afterlife
  • Deity (Level 2)
    • God
  • Meditation
  • New religious movement
  • Prayer
  • Ritual
  • Shamanism
  • Soul
  • Spirituality
• Secularism
  • Atheism

Specific religions

This section contains 25 articles.

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 13 articles.

• Abraham
• Christianity
  • Bible
  • Catholic Church
  • Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Protestantism
• Islam
  • Shia Islam
  • Sunni Islam
  • Quran
• Judaism
  • Talmud
• Moses

East Asian religions

This section contains 3 articles.

• Chinese folk religion
• Shinto
• Taoism

Indian religions

This section contains 8 articles.

• Buddhism
  • Mahayana
  • Theravada
• Hinduism
  • Vedas
  • Bhagavad Gita
• Jainism
• Sikhism

Other religions

This section contains 1 article.

• Traditional African religions

Everyday life

This section contains 57 articles.

Everyday life: General

This section contains 4 articles.

• Clothing (Level 2)
• Home (Level 2)
• Furniture
• Jewellery

Family and kinship

This section contains 10 articles.

• Ethnicity (Level 2)
• Family (Level 2)
  • Adult
  • Adolescence
  • Child
    • Infant
  • Marriage
  • Old age
  • Parenting
• Friendship

Sexuality and gender

This section contains 6 articles.

• Human sexuality (Level 2)
  • Sexual intercourse
  • Sexual orientation
• Gender
  • Man
  • Woman

Food and drink

This section contains 22 articles.

• Cooking
• Food (Level 2)
  • Bread
  • Cereal
    • Wheat
    • Maize
    • Rice
  • Cheese
  • Fruit
  • Meat
  • Salt
  • Spice
  • Sugar
  • Vegetable
    • Potato
    • Soybean
• Drink
  • Alcoholic beverage
  • Coffee
  • Drinking water
  • Milk
  • Tea

Recreation and entertainment

This section contains 15 articles.

• Entertainment (Level 2)
• Play (activity)
  • Game
    • Board game
    • Card game
    • Gambling
    • Video game
  • Sport (Level 2)
    • Association football
    • Sport of athletics
    • Olympic Games
  • Toy
• Martial arts
• Swimming
• Tourism

Society and social sciences

This section contains 146 articles.

Society and social sciences: General

This section contains 13 articles.

• Culture (Level 2)
  • Folklore (Level 2)
  • Festival
  • Oral tradition
  • Popular culture
• Society (Level 1)
  • Community
  • Power (social and political)
  • Social class
• Communication (Level 2)
• Social science
  • Anthropology
  • Sociology

Politics and government

This section contains 25 articles.

• Politics (Level 2)
  • Political party
  • Political science
  • Colonialism
  • Imperialism
• Government (Level 2)
  • Democracy
  • Dictatorship
  • Monarchy
• Ideology
  • Anarchism
  • Capitalism
  • Communism
  • Conservatism
  • Fascism
  • Liberalism
  • Nationalism
  • Socialism
• State
  • Diplomacy
  • Military
• International organizations
  • European Union
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  • NATO
  • United Nations

Conflict

This section contains 4 articles.

• War (Level 2)
• Genocide
• Peace
• Terrorism

Education

This section contains 4 articles.

• Education (Level 2)
  • School
  • Library
  • University

Business and economics

This section contains 22 articles.

• Business (Level 2)
  • Corporation
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Retail
  • Trade union
• Economics (Level 2)
  • Trade (Level 2)
    • Supply and demand
  • Employment
  • Finance
    • Bank
    • Money
  • Insurance
  • Tax
• Economy
  • Agriculture (Level 2)
  • Manufacturing (Level 2)
  • Construction
  • Fishing
  • Hunting
  • Mining

Social issues

This section contains 21 articles.

• Abortion
• Disability
• Discrimination
  • Racism
  • Sexism
• Environmentalism
  • Pollution
• Famine
• Feminism
• Globalization
• Human migration
• Human rights
  • Liberty
  • Privacy
  • Slavery
  • Social equality
  • Suffrage
• Indigenous peoples
• Poverty
• Violence
• Welfare

Law

This section contains 6 articles.

• Law (Level 2)
  • Crime
  • Constitution
  • Justice
  • Police
  • Property

Psychology

This section contains 16 articles.

• Psychology (Level 2)
• Emotion (Level 2)
  • Anger
  • Fear
  • Happiness
    • Humour
  • Love
• Mind (Level 2)
  • Consciousness
  • Dream
  • Memory
  • Thought
• Human behavior
• Intelligence
• Learning
• Personality

Language

This section contains 31 articles.

• Language (Level 2)
  • Indo-European languages
    • Bengali
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hindustani
    • Latin
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Spanish
  • Other languages
    • Arabic
    • Chinese
    • Japanese
    • Malay
    • Swahili
• Linguistics
  • Grammar
  • Word
• Personal name
• Speech
• Writing (Level 2)
  • Alphabet
    • Arabic script
    • Brahmic scripts
    • Cyrillic script
    • Greek alphabet
    • Latin script
  • Arabic numerals
  • Chinese characters

Media

This section contains 4 articles.

• Mass media (Level 2)
  • Broadcasting
  • News
  • Publishing

Health, medicine and disease

This section contains 41 articles.

Illness and injury

This section contains 19 articles.

• Disease (Level 2)
  • Allergy
  • Asthma
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular disease
    • Stroke
  • Diabetes
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Infection
    • Common cold
    • Influenza
    • Malaria
    • Pneumonia
    • Sexually transmitted infection
      • HIV/AIDS
    • Smallpox
    • Tuberculosis
  • Mental disorder
• Injury

Health, fitness, and medicine

This section contains 13 articles.

• Medicine (Level 2)
  • Dentistry
  • Hospital
  • Nursing
  • Surgery
• Ageing
• Exercise
• Health
  • Mental health
• Hygiene
  • Sanitation
• Nutrition
• Obesity

Drugs and medication

This section contains 9 articles.

• Drug
  • Medication
    • Anesthesia
    • Antibiotic
    • Birth control
    • Vaccine
  • Addiction
    • Alcoholism
    • Smoking

Science

This section contains 213 articles.

Science: General

This section contains 5 articles.

• Science (Level 1)
  • Scientific method
• Measurement
  • International System of Units
• Nature

Astronomy

This section contains 26 articles.

• Astronomy (Level 2)
• Universe (Level 2)
• Solar System (Level 2)
  • Sun (Level 2)
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth (Level 1)
    • Moon (Level 2)
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
• Asteroid
• Big Bang
• Black hole
• Comet
• Galaxy
  • Milky Way
• Natural satellite
• Orbit
• Outer space
• Physical cosmology
• Planet
• Star
• Supernova

Physics

This section contains 41 articles.

• Physics (Level 2)
• Energy (Level 2)
• Time (Level 2)
  • Day
  • Year
• Classical mechanics
  • Mass
  • Momentum
  • Motion
  • Newton's laws of motion
• Force
  • Electromagnetism
  • Gravity
  • Strong interaction
  • Weak interaction
• Magnetism
• Matter
  • State of matter
  • Atom (Level 2)
• Particle physics
  • Standard Model
  • Subatomic particle
    • Electron
    • Neutron
    • Photon
    • Proton
• Quantum mechanics
• Radioactive decay
• Space
  • Vacuum
• Thermodynamics
  • Heat
  • Temperature
• Theory of relativity
  • Speed of light
• Wave
  • Electromagnetic radiation
    • Light
      • Color
      • Optics
  • Sound

Biology

This section contains 80 articles.

• Biology (Level 2)
  • Molecular biology
• Life (Level 1)
  • Cell (Level 2)
  • Death (Level 2)
    • Suicide
  • Abiogenesis
• Ecology (Level 2)
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystem
  • Extinction
• Evolution (Level 2)
  • Human evolution
  • Natural selection
• Organism
  • Archaea
  • Bacteria
  • Eukaryote
    • Animal (Level 2)
      • Zoology
      • Amphibian
      • Arthropod
        • Crustacean
        • Insect
      • Bird
        • Chicken
      • Fish
      • Mammal
        • Cat
        • Cattle
        • Dog
        • Horse
        • Pig
        • Primate
          • Human (Level 1)
        • Rodent
        • Sheep
      • Mollusca
      • Reptile
        • Dinosaur
    • Plant (Level 2)
      • Algae
      • Botany
      • Flower
      • Seed
      • Tree
    • Fungus
  • Virus
• Anatomy
  • Human body
  • Circulatory system
    • Blood
    • Heart
    • Lung
  • Immune system
  • Liver
  • Nervous system
    • Brain
    • Ear
    • Eye
    • Sense
  • Skeletal muscle
  • Skeleton
    • Bone
  • Skin
• Physiology
  • Digestion
  • Metabolism
  • Photosynthesis
  • Reproduction
    • Egg
    • Sex
    • Pregnancy
  • Sleep
• Genetics
  • Gene
  • Heredity
• Paleontology
• Taxonomy
  • Species

Chemistry

This section contains 38 articles.

• Chemistry (Level 2)
  • Biochemistry
    • Carbohydrate
    • DNA
    • Hormone
    • Lipid
    • Protein
    • RNA
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Organic chemistry
  • Physical chemistry
• Chemical element (Level 2)
  • Periodic table
  • Aluminium
  • Carbon
  • Copper
  • Gold
  • Hydrogen
  • Iron
  • Nitrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Phosphorus
  • Silicon
  • Silver
  • Sulfur
• Chemical compound
  • Water (Level 2)
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Chemical bond
  • Molecule
• Chemical reaction
  • Acid–base reaction
  • Catalysis
  • Redox
• Metal
  • Alloy
    • Bronze
    • Steel

Earth science

This section contains 23 articles.

• Earth science
  • History of Earth
  • Atmosphere of Earth
  • Internal structure of Earth
  • Season
  • Flood
• Climate (Level 2)
  • Climate change
• Weather
  • Cloud
  • Rain
  • Snow
  • Tornado
  • Tropical cyclone
  • Wind
• Geology (Level 2)
  • Earthquake
  • Erosion
  • Mineral
  • Plate tectonics
  • Rock
  • Soil
  • Volcano

Technology

This section contains 97 articles.

Technology: General

This section contains 4 articles.

• Technology (Level 1)
• Engineering (Level 2)
  • Civil engineering
  • Mechanical engineering

Energy

This section contains 14 articles.

• Electricity (Level 2)
  • Electric battery
• Fire (Level 2)
• Explosive
  • Gunpowder
• Fossil fuel
  • Coal
  • Natural gas
  • Petroleum
• Nuclear power
• Renewable energy
  • Hydropower
  • Solar energy
  • Wind power

Food and health

This section contains 10 articles.

• Animal husbandry
  • Domestication
• Biotechnology
  • Genetic engineering
• Fertilizer
• Food preservation
• Garden
• Medical imaging
• Oven
• Refrigeration

Weapons

This section contains 6 articles.

• Weapon
  • Armour
  • Bomb
  • Bow and arrow
  • Firearm
  • Knife

Tools and machinery

This section contains 8 articles.

• Tool (Level 2)
  • Simple machine
  • Wheel
• Engine
  • Electric motor
  • Internal combustion engine
  • Steam engine
• Robotics

Media and communication

This section contains 9 articles.

• Printing
  • Book (Level 2)
• Mail
• Telecommunications
  • Internet
  • Radio
  • Telephone
    • Mobile phone
  • Television

Computing and information technology

This section contains 4 articles.

• Computer science
  • Computer (Level 2)
  • Artificial intelligence
• Cryptography

Electronics

This section contains 4 articles.

• Electronics
• Electric light
• Integrated circuit
• Semiconductor device

Space

This section contains 5 articles.

• Rocket
• Satellite
• Space exploration
• Spaceflight
• Space station

Transportation

This section contains 9 articles.

• Transport (Level 2)
  • Aircraft
  • Bicycle
  • Bridge
  • Canal
  • Car
  • Road
  • Ship
  • Train

Navigation and timekeeping

This section contains 6 articles.

• Navigation
  • Compass
  • Map
  • Radar
• Calendar
• Clock

Structures

This section contains 3 articles.

• Fortification
• Infrastructure
  • Dam

Materials

This section contains 10 articles.

• Concrete
• Glass
• Masonry
• Metallurgy
• Natural rubber
• Paper
• Plastic
• Textile
  • Cotton
• Wood

Optical

This section contains 5 articles.

• Camera
• Laser
• Lens
• Microscope
• Telescope

Mathematics

This section contains 44 articles.

Mathematics: General

This section contains 5 articles.

• Mathematics (Level 1)
  • Algorithm
  • Mathematical proof
  • Set
  • Function

Counting and numbers

This section contains 12 articles.

• Combinatorics
• Number (Level 2)
  • Real number
    • e
    • π
    • Fraction
    • Integer
      • 0
      • Natural number
      • Prime number
  • Complex number
  • Number theory

Algebra

This section contains 5 articles.

• Algebra
  • Equation
  • Variable
• Linear algebra
• Abstract algebra

Analysis

This section contains 5 articles.

• Mathematical analysis
  • Calculus
  • Infinity
  • Limit
  • Series

Arithmetic

This section contains 4 articles.

• Arithmetic (Level 2)
  • Exponentiation
  • Logarithm
  • nth root

Geometry and topology

This section contains 11 articles.

• Geometry (Level 2)
  • Angle
    • Trigonometry
  • Area
    • Circle
  • Line
  • Polygon
    • Triangle
  • Three-dimensional space
  • Volume
• Topology

Probability and statistics

This section contains 2 articles.

• Probability
• Statistics (Level 2)