Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

Vital articles on Wikipedia are written about important topics, organized into five list levels in decreasing importance: 1 (10 articles), 2 (100 articles), 3 (1000 articles), 4 (10,000 articles) and 5 (50,000 articles). An article at the top level also belongs to the lower levels. The articles are organized into groups of topics, with lower levels having more granular subdivisions. The lists serve as guidance to prioritize improvement of important articles and for monitoring their quality. Articles here should only be changed after discussion at the talk page.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5

Improve a random level 4 Vital article

Shortcuts

Because of its size, Vital articles Level 4 has been split into eleven sublists. As of January 18, 2023, this list includes 10,012 individual articles. Please make sure items added into the Level 4 list also have been added to the Level 5 list once and only once.

The level 4 Vital Articles list is monitored by the WikiProject Vital Articles. Other broad-topic article lists for different Wikipedia languages are accessible via the language sidebar or button. A more detailed explanation on the purpose, mechanisms and history of the Vital Articles list can be found at its FAQ page.

0.1% List-Class
15.7% Start-Class
39% C-Class
33.3% B-Class
7.4% GA-Class
0.1% A-Class
4.5% FA-Class

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.

Sublist	Current	Target	Variance
People	1,994	2,000	-6
History	684	700	-16
Geography	1,204	1,200	4
Arts	671	700	-29
Philosophy and religion	436	450	-14
Everyday life	476	450	25
Society and social sciences	924	900	24
Biological and health sciences	1,480	1,500	-20
Physical sciences	1,100	1,100	0
Technology	738	700	38
Mathematics	301	300	1
Total	10,008	10,000	8

Counts updated from subpages by: --Thi (talk) 19:03, 14 April 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

See also