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Vital Articles This is a list of basic subjects for which Wikipedia should have a corresponding high-quality article, and ideally a
featured article. It serves as a centralized watchlist of the current status of some of Wikipedia's most important, essential articles. Articles that are already on
Wikipedia:Featured articles are marked with a star (
This list is derived from the English-language version of the Meta page m:List of articles every Wikipedia should have, which origated on Simple Wikipedia as a list to help guide new versions of Wikipedia in making short articles for the most essential topics. Since then, the list has been greatly revised over time, and continues to be changed; current discussions of the list are available at the talk page. This page has a concise version of the original list. It lists appropriately 1,000 of the most vital Wikipedia articles. A longer, expanded version, similar to the Meta page, is available at Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded. This list should have all the same entries as the concise list, plus around 500–1,000 more articles. Consequently, new additions to the list should preferably be proposed first at Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Expanded. Whether they also merit inclusion on this list can then be discussed. See also Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics for another take on the minimal article list.
Campbell's Soup Cans — Carolingian Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 11848) — Iron Mike — K Foundation — K Foundation art award — Pigment — Schuttern Gospels — The Last Supper (Leonardo) — White Mountain art — (9 articles) Alan Moore — Banksy — Romaine Brooks — Canaletto — Caravaggio — Hiroh Kikai — Jean-Claude Mézières — Paul Rand — Vincent van Gogh — Ralph Bakshi — (10 articles) Fremantle Prison — Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago— National Gallery, London — (3 articles) American popular music — Music of Albania — Music of Antigua and Barbuda — Music of Barbados — Music of Dominica — Music of Hawaii — Music of Hungary — Music of Italy — Music of New Zealand — Music of Saint Lucia — Music of Spain — Music of Thailand — Music of the Bahamas — Music of Trinidad and Tobago — (14 articles) Alternative rock — Drum and bass — Italo disco — Minstrel show — Music of the trecento — Rapping — Reggaeton — Soukous — Trobairitz — (10 articles) Agung — Double bass — Gandingan — Hurdy gurdy — Pipe organ — Recorder — Wanamaker Organ — (7 articles) Homophony (music) — Tone cluster — (1 article) Glastonbury Festival — (1 article) AC/DC — Ace Young — Ahn Eak-tai — Alizée — Arctic Monkeys — Ashlee Simpson — Bert Jansch — Bianca Ryan — Black Flag (band) — Blondie (band) — Bob Marley — Bradley Joseph — Brand New — Britney Spears — Bruce Springsteen — Cat Stevens — Christina Aguilera — Dannii Minogue — Death In June — Derek and the Dominos — Derek Webb — Dru Hill — Electric Six — Ellis Paul — Fenix*TX — Fluke (band) — Fly to the Sky — Frank Black — Freddie Lennon — Garbage (band) — Green Day — Henry Rollins — Howie Day — Ilaiyaraaja — Jack White — Juanes — Jeff Tweedy — John Mayer — JoJo — Katie Melua — Keane — Kelly Clarkson — KISS (band) — Kurt Cobain — Ladysmith Black Mambazo — Michael Jackson — Nelly Furtado — Neil Aspinall— Nine Inch Nails — No Doubt — Paul McCartney — Phish — Ray LaMontagne — Radiohead — Soda Stereo — Sonic Youth — Sonny Rollins — Sparks (band) — Streetlight Manifesto — Sugababes — Switchfoot — Syd Barrett — Taylor Hicks — Tenacious D — The Band — The Beatles — The Fray — The Game — The Notorious B.I.G. — The Orb — The Reputation — The Smashing Pumpkins — The White Stripes — Tom Araya — Tupac Shakur — U2 — Wicked Lester — (76 articles) "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley song) — Agrippina (opera) — Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album) — " Bohemian Rhapsody" — " Bringin' on the Heartbreak" — " Burn the Bastards" — Chill Out — " Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other" — Dido and Aeneas — " Doctorin' the Tardis" — " Down Town" — Extraordinary Machine — Freak Out! — Hilary Duff (album) — " I Believe in You" — " I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)" — Impossible Princess — " It's All Coming Back to Me Now" — " It's Grim Up North" — " Justified and Ancient" — " Last Train to Trancentral" — Mythodea — " Nine Million Bicycles" — Number 1's (Mariah Carey album) — Orfeo ed Euridice — Out of Reach — Ray of Light — " Shadow" — Shag Times — Smells Like Teen Spirit" — " Sunday Bloody Sunday" — Supernature (Goldfrapp album) — " The Beautiful People" — The Fairy-Queen — The KLF discography — The Rite of Spring — " This Charming Man" — " Tumbling Dice" — Venus and Adonis (opera) — " We Belong Together" — " What Time Is Love?" — " Where Did Our Love Go" — " Whitney Joins The JAMs" — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — " You're Still the One" — Reign in Blood — (45 articles) International Phonetic Alphabet — Tajik alphabet — (2 articles) Bench language — Berber languages — English language — Esperanto — Fur language — Hebrew language — Latin — Logba language — Nahuatl language — Niellim language — Nobiin language — Old English language — Old Nubian language — Phla-Pherá languages — Sanskrit — Scanian (linguistics) — Scots language — Senufo languages — Shabo language — Soddo language — Sudanic languages — Weyto language — (22 articles) Behistun Inscription — High German consonant shift — Hoi polloi — Irish phonology — Japanese grammar — Truthiness — Yuri Knorosov — (7 articles) Museum of the Portuguese Language — Mythical origins of language — (2 articles) Goldmoon — Riverwind — Lord Voldemort — (3 articles) Allegory in the Middle Ages — Anglo-Saxon literature — Botan Doro — Harry Potter — Persian literature — Swedish literature — Technomancer Press — Yotsuya Kaidan — (8 articles) Ars moriendi — Boogiepop series — Crime and Punishment — Danny Deever — Death Note — Dragons of Autumn Twilight — Erast Fandorin — Euston Manifesto — Fantastic Universe — Fight Club — Floris and Blancheflour — Frankenstein — Golden Boy (manga) — Pat the Bunny — Shigin — The Absent-Minded Beggar — The Atlas of Australian Birds — The CIA and September 11 (book) — The Heralds — The Picture of Dorian Gray — Treasure Island — Underground (stories) — (22 articles) Bashō, Matsuo — Borges, Jorge Luis — Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Étienne — Brodie, Fawn M. — Campbell, John W. — Chekhov, Anton — Cummings, E. E. — Fujiwara no Teika — Goldfaden, Abraham — Hemingway, Ernest — Hubbard, L. Ron — Kilmer, Joyce — Lem, Stanisław — Poe, Edgar Allan — Riis, Jacob — Rodenbach, Albrecht — Rowling, J. K. — Shakespeare, William — Upfield, Arthur — Wilde, Oscar — Wollstonecraft, Mary — Johnson, Pauline — (22 articles) Burke, Edmund — Fodor, Jerry — Hume, David — Popper, Karl — Russell, Bertrand — (5 articles) Analytical Marxism — Flat Earth — Power: A New Social Analysis — (3 articles) Consolation of Philosophy — Dualism (philosophy of mind) — Eliminative materialism — Global justice — Philosophy of language — (5 articles) Apollo — Ganesha — God — (3 articles) Atlantis — King Arthur — Leprechaun — Mythical origins of language — Prester John — Tengu — Vampire — (6 articles) Dianetics — Flying Spaghetti Monster — Intelligent design — Mormon Trail — (4 articles) Chinese Rites controversy — Vix Pervenit — (2 articles) Catholic social teaching — (1 article) Aquinas, Thomas — Barrientos, Lope de — Bede, Venerable — Bugnini, Annibale — Farrar, Janet — Farrar, Stewart — Jesus — Lefebvre, Marcel — Luther, Martin — Pope Benedict XVI — Pope John Paul II — Rama — Sanders, John E. — Sunday, Billy — Meher Baba — Swedenborg, Emanuel — (16 articles) Christianity — Ebionites — Ghost Dance — Hinduism — Iglesia ni Cristo — Judaism — Opus Dei — Orthodox Church in America — Papal conclave — Religious Society of Friends — Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago — Roman Catholicism in Afghanistan — Roman Catholicism in Mongolia — Roman Catholicism in Nepal — Seventh-day Adventist Church — Stregheria — Taoism — Witchcraft — Zoroastrianism — (19 articles) Book of Abraham — Comma Johanneum — Merseburg Incantations — Star of Bethlehem — (4 articles)
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