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 21
GA 32
FFA 36
DGA 38

History

This section contains 694 articles.

Basics

This section contains 5 articles.

  1.   Human history (Level 1)
  2.   History
    1.   Historical method
  3.   Civilization
  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
  2.   Early human migrations
  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
      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.

Auxiliary historical sciences

This section contains 13 articles.