Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4/History

Level 4 Sublists

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.

Articles in the Vital list have their assessments 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. Total 694 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 20
GA 32
A 3
B 300
C 328
FFA 37
DGA 38
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History

This section contains 694 articles.

Basics

This section contains 5 articles.

  1.   Human history (Level 1)
  2.   History (Level 2)
    1.   Historical method
  3.   Civilization (Level 2)
  4.   Archive

History by continent and region

This section contains 18 articles.

History by country

This section contains 43 articles.

Prehistory

This section contains 15 articles.

  1.   Prehistory (Level 2)
  2.   Early human migrations (Level 3)
  3.     Stone Age (Level 3)
    1.   Paleolithic
      1.   Lower Paleolithic
      2.   Middle Paleolithic
        1.   Control of fire by early humans
      3.   Upper Paleolithic
        1.   Behavioral modernity
    2.   Mesolithic
    3.   Neolithic
      1.   Neolithic Revolution (Level 3)
      2.   Cradle of civilization
      3.   Prehistoric Egypt
      4.   Proto-Indo-Europeans

Ancient

This section contains 128 articles.

Post-classical

This section contains 134 articles.

Early modern

This section contains 93 articles.

Modern

This section contains 172 articles.

Historical cities

This section contains 29 articles.

History by subject matter

This section contains 44 articles.

History of art

This section contains 7 articles.

  1.   History of art (Level 3)
    1.   History of architecture (Level 3)
    2.   History of film (Level 3)
    3.   History of literature (Level 3)
    4.   History of music (Level 3)
      1.   History of opera
    5.   History of theatre

History of everyday life

This section contains 1 article.

  1.   History of human sexuality

History of philosophy and religion

This section contains 9 articles.

  1.   History of atheism
  2.   History of philosophy (Level 3)
  3.   History of political thought
  4.   History of religion
    1.     History of Buddhism
    2.   History of Christianity
    3.   History of Hinduism
    4.   History of Islam
    5.   Jewish history

History of science and technology

This section contains 19 articles.

  1.   History of agriculture (Level 3)
  2.   History of communication
    1.   History of writing
  3.   History of mathematics (Level 3)
  4.     History of science (Level 2)
    1.   History of astronomy
    2.   History of biology
    3.   History of chemistry
    4.   History of geography
    5.   History of geology
    6.   History of linguistics
    7.   History of physics
  5.   History of medicine (Level 3)
  6.   History of technology (Level 3)
    1.     History of computing hardware
    2.   History of transport
      1.   History of aviation
      2.   History of spaceflight
      3.   Maritime history

History of society and the social sciences

This section contains 6 articles.

  1.   History of economic thought
  2.   History of psychology
  3.   History of sociology
  4.   Legal history
  5.   Military history (Level 3)
  6.   Women's history

History of games and sport

This section contains 2 articles.

  1.   History of games
  2.   History of sport

Auxiliary historical sciences

This section contains 13 articles.