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 the sub-lists of the fifty thousand article Vital articles/Level 5 and is currently under construction.
Quota 3,300 articles. Total 3,339 articles.
General
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- The arts (Level 1)
- Art (Level 3)
- Artist (Level 4)
- Art school
- Art world
- Work of art
Architecture
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See also Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Technology#Infrastructure
Basics
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Basics: General
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By geographic location
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Styles
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Specific structures
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Cultural venues
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Museums
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Specific cultural venues
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Africa
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Americas
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Asia
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Europe
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Oceania
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- National Museum of Australia
Literature
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Basics
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Literary genres
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Narrative
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Literatures by religion, language and area
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History of world literature
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Specific works of literature
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Nonfiction
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Nonfiction of antiquity
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- Almagest
- Anabasis (Xenophon) (Level 4)
- Analects (Level 4)
- Annals (Tacitus)
- Antiquities of the Jews
- Apology (Plato) (Level 4)
- The Art of War (Level 4)
- Arthashastra
- Book of the Dead
- Chinese classics
- Book of Documents
- Book of Rites
- I Ching (Level 4)
- Spring and Autumn Annals
- Classic of Mountains and Seas
- Confessions (Augustine)
- Works of Aristotle
- Metaphysics (Aristotle) (Level 4)
- Nicomachean Ethics (Level 4)
- On the Soul
- Organon (Level 4)
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Poetics (Aristotle)
- Politics (Aristotle)
- Rhetoric (Aristotle)
- Crito
- Cyropaedia
- De Officiis
- De Oratore
- Dead Sea Scrolls (Level 4)
- Discourses of Epictetus
- Doctrine of the Mean
- Euclid's Elements (Level 4)
- Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
- Gorgias (dialogue)
- Great Learning
- Hippocratic Corpus (Level 4)
- Histories (Herodotus) (Level 4)
- The Histories (Polybius)
- Histories (Tacitus)
- History of the Peloponnesian War (Level 4)
- Instruction of Amenemope
- Instructions of Shuruppak
- Kama Sutra
- Kesh temple hymn
- Loyalist Teaching
- The Maxims of Ptahhotep
- Meditations
- Mencius (book)
- Parallel Lives
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus (dialogue)
- Protagoras (dialogue)
- Shiji
- Republic (Plato) (Level 4)
- Septuagint (Level 4)
- Symposium (Plato)
- Theaetetus (dialogue)
- The Twelve Caesars
Nonfiction of the medieval era
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- Alexiad
- Baburnama
- The Book of Healing (Level 4)
- The Canon of Medicine
- The Cloud of Unknowing
- Codex Regius
- The Consolation of Philosophy (Level 4)
- Domesday Book
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- Gesta Danorum
- Gothic Bible
- Heimskringla
- Huolongjing
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence
- The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Level 4)
- Mandeville's Travels
- Muqaddimah (Level 4)
- Philokalia
- Proslogion
- Revelations of Divine Love
- Scivias
- Sum of Logic
- Summa Theologica (Level 4)
- The Travels of Marco Polo
- Wujing Zongyao
- Vulgate (Level 4)
- Wycliffe's Bible
Nonfiction of early printed book era
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- Common Sense
- Confessions (Rousseau)
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Critique of Pure Reason (Level 4)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Level 4)
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- A Dictionary of the English Language (Level 4)
- Discourse on the Method (Level 4)
- Douay–Rheims Bible
- Encyclopædia Britannica (Level 4)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Essays (Montaigne)
- Ethics (Spinoza book)
- The Federalist Papers
- Geneva Bible
- Gutenberg Bible (Level 4)
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Level 4)
- In Praise of Folly
- Institutes of the Christian Religion
- King James Version (Level 4)
- Leviathan (Hobbes book) (Level 4)
- Life of Samuel Johnson
- Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
- Luther Bible
- Malleus Maleficarum
- Ninety-five Theses (Level 4)
- Opticks
- Pensées
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Level 4)
- Popol Vuh (Level 4)
- The Prince (Level 4)
- Samguk sagi
- Samguk yusa
- The Spirit of Law
- The System of Nature
- Tyndale Bible
- Voynich manuscript
- The Wealth of Nations (Level 4)
- Yongle Encyclopedia
Nonfiction of modern era
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General nonfiction
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- American Slavery As It Is
- The Art of Computer Programming
- Beyond Good and Evil
- A Brief History of Time
- Capitalism and Freedom
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
- Coming of Age in Samoa
- The Communist Manifesto (Level 4)
- Das Kapital (Level 4)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- The Decline of the West
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- Democracy in America
- Encyclopédie (Level 4)
- Fear and Trembling
- The Feminine Mystique
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics
- Foundations of Geopolitics
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Level 4)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- The Golden Bough (Level 4)
- Gray's Anatomy
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Hiroshima (book)
- History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
- The History of Rome (Mommsen)
- The History of the Standard Oil Company
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- In Cold Blood
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Mere Christianity
- Mythology (book)
- On the Origin of Species (Level 4)
- The Open Society and Its Enemies
- Orientalism (book)
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Orthodoxy (book)
- The Phenomenology of Spirit
- Philosophical Investigations
- Principia Mathematica
- Progress and Poverty
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Level 4)
- The Road to Serfdom
- Robert's Rules of Order
- The Rules of Sociological Method
- The Second Sex
- The Selfish Gene
- Silent Spring (Level 4)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Level 4)
- A Study of History
- Suicide (Durkheim book)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- The Varieties of Religious Experience
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- The World as Will and Representation
Bible translations
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- American Standard Version
- New International Version
- Revised Version
Biographies and memoirs
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- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Black Boy
- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Double Helix
- The Education of Henry Adams
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- The Gulag Archipelago
- Histoire de ma vie
- Homage to Catalonia
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Mein Kampf
- Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
- A Moveable Feast
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Night (memoir) (Level 4)
- Out of Africa
- Speak, Memory
- Up from Slavery
- Walden
- The Woman Warrior
- The Year of Magical Thinking
Essays
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- Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
- On Liberty
- A Room of One's Own
- The Souls of Black Folk
- Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Reference works
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- The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- The Elements of Style
- Great Russian Encyclopedia
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia
- Guinness World Records
- Michelin Guide
- Oxford English Dictionary (Level 4)
- Webster's Dictionary
Fiction
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Fiction of antiquity
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Fiction of the medieval era
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Fiction of early printed book era
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19th century fiction
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20th century fiction
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21st century fiction
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Comics
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Poetic works
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Music
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Basics
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Western classical music
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Popular music
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World music
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Musical instruments
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Specific musical works
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Modern music
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Visual arts
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Specific works of visual art
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Painting
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Prehistoric
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- Bhimbetka rock shelters
- Cave of Altamira
- Chauvet Cave
- Cave of El Castillo
- Lascaux
Pre-modern
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- A Harlot's Progress
- Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Level 4)
- The Ambassadors (Holbein)
- The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
- Arnolfini Portrait (Level 4)
- The Art of Painting
- Athenaeum Portrait
- Bacchus and Ariadne
- The Beheading of St John the Baptist (Caravaggio)
- The Birth of Venus (Level 4)
- The Blue Boy
- The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
- The Calling of Saint Matthew
- The Death of Marat
- The Death of Socrates
- The Elevation of the Cross (Rubens)
- The Feast of the Gods
- The Four Seasons (Poussin)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (Level 4)
- Ghent Altarpiece
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- The Hunters in the Snow
- Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Naples)
- Lady with an Ermine
- The Last Supper (Leonardo) (Level 4)
- La maja desnuda
- Las Meninas (Level 4)
- Mona Lisa (Level 4)
- Mr and Mrs Andrews
- The Musicians (Caravaggio)
- Napoleon Crossing the Alps
- Navicella (mosaic)
- The Night Watch (Level 4)
- Portrait of Juan de Pareja
- Primavera (Botticelli)
- The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt)
- Salvator Mundi
- The School of Athens
- Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
- Self-portraits by Rembrandt
- Sistine Chapel (Level 4)
- The Creation of Adam
- The Last Judgement (Michelangelo)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling
- The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
- The Swing (Fragonard)
- The Third of May 1808
- The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)
- The Tribute Money (Masaccio)
- Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony
- View of Toledo
- Virgin of the Rocks
Modern
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- A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
- A Cotton Office in New Orleans
- American Gothic
- Bal du moulin de la Galette
- Barge Haulers on the Volga
- The Barque of Dante
- Bathers at Asnières
- The Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)
- Black Iris (painting)
- Black Paintings
- Saturn Devouring His Son
- Black Square (painting)
- Blue Horses
- Café Terrace at Night
- The Card Players
- Christina's World
- Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow
- Dance (Matisse)
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Level 4)
- Detroit Industry Murals
- Dogs Playing Poker
- The Elephant Celebes
- The Farm (Miró)
- The Fighting Temeraire
- Gassed (painting)
- Girl with Peaches
- The Gleaners
- Grande Odalisque
- The Gross Clinic
- Guernica (Picasso) (Level 4)
- The Hay Wain
- Impression, Sunrise
- Interchange (de Kooning)
- Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan
- Jimson Weed (painting)
- The Kiss (Hayez)
- The Kiss (Klimt)
- Le Sommeil
- Liberty Leading the People
- The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Señor Xolotl
- Luncheon of the Boating Party
- Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
- Man at the Crossroads
- The Massacre at Chios
- Nighthawks (Hopper)
- The Ninth Wave
- Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket
- Nu couché
- Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
- Olympia (Manet)
- Ophelia (painting)
- L'Origine du monde
- Parade de cirque
- Paris Street; Rainy Day
- The Persistence of Memory (Level 4)
- Pollice Verso (Gérôme)
- The Potato Eaters
- Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
- Portrait of Dr. Gachet
- Portrait of Madame X
- The Raft of the Medusa
- Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
- The Scream (Level 4)
- Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird
- The Slave Ship
- The Sleeping Gypsy
- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
- Spirit of the Dead Watching
- The Starry Night (Level 4)
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Level 4)
- Sunflowers (Van Gogh series)
- Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
- Tiger in a Tropical Storm
- The Treachery of Images
- The Turkish Bath
- Twittering Machine
- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
- Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings)
- Water Lilies (Monet series) (Level 4)
- The Weeping Woman
- Wheat Fields
- When Will You Marry?
- Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- Whistler's Mother
- The Wounded Deer
Contemporary
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- Campbell's Soup Cans (Level 4)
- Drowning Girl
- Marilyn Diptych
- No. 5, 1948
- Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
- The Problem We All Live With
- The Son of Man
- Whaam!
Sculpture
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Photographs
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Contemporary art
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Individual fashion designs
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Modern visual arts
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Modern visual arts: General
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Basic film concepts
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Specific films
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Fictional characters
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Mythological and Biblical characters are listed under Philosophy and religion
Western folklore
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Eastern folklore
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Literature and drama
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