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Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Uncyclopedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Uncyclopedia's most essential articles. Approximately one thousand articles on this page constitute the Level 3 list. A Level 4 list of ten thousand articles is currently under construction.

Articles are labelled as:

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These symbols are updated manually and may be out of date; you are encouraged to fix any errors you discover.

This list is tailored to the English-language Uncyclopedia. There is also a list of one thousand articles considered vital to Uncyclopedias of all languages.

For more information on this list and the process for adding articles, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

Current total: 994[edit source]

Last updated by MadMax (talk) 20:32, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

People (132 articles)[edit source]


Artists[edit source]

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Michelangelo
  3. El Greco
  4. Rembrandt
  5. Hokusai
  6. Claude Monet
  7. Vincent van Gogh
  8. Pablo Picasso
  9. Salvador Dalí
  10. Frida Kahlo

Writers[edit source]

  1. Homer
  2. Sophocles
  3. Virgil
  4. Li Bai
  5. Rumi
  6. Dante Alighieri
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Miguel de Cervantes
  9. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. Edgar Allan Poe
  11. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. Leo Tolstoy
  13. James Joyce
  14. Virginia Woolf
  15. Kahlil Gibran
  16. Franz Kafka
  17. Ernest Hemingway

Composers and musicians[edit source]

  1. Hildegard of Bingen
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach
  3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. Ludwig van Beethoven
  5. Richard Wagner
  6. Giuseppe Verdi
  7. Frédéric Chopin
  8. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  9. Ravi Shankar
  10. Elvis Presley
  11. The Beatles

Filmmakers[edit source]

  1. Charlie Chaplin
  2. Alfred Hitchcock
  3. Walt Disney
  4. Akira Kurosawa

Businesspeople[edit source]

  1. Henry Ford

Explorers[edit source]

  1. Marco Polo
  2. Ibn Battuta
  3. Zheng He
  4. Christopher Columbus
  5. Vasco da Gama
  6. Ferdinand Magellan
  7. James Cook
  8. Roald Amundsen

Inventors and scientists[edit source]

  1. Jābir ibn Hayyān
  2. Shen Kuo
  3. Johannes Gutenberg
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus
  5. Galileo Galilei
  6. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  7. Isaac Newton
  8. Benjamin Franklin
  9. Carl Linnaeus
  10. Antoine Lavoisier
  11. Michael Faraday
  12. Charles Darwin
  13. James Clerk Maxwell
  14. Dmitri Mendeleev
  15. Thomas Edison
  16. Nikola Tesla
  17. Marie Curie
  18. Albert Einstein
  19. Niels Bohr
  20. Werner Heisenberg

Mathematicians[edit source]

  1. Pythagoras
  2. Archimedes
  3. Euclid
  4. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  6. Leonhard Euler
  7. Pierre-Simon Laplace
  8. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  9. David Hilbert
  10. Alan Turing

Philosophers and social scientists[edit source]

  1. Confucius
  2. Herodotus
  3. Plato
  4. Aristotle
  5. Nagarjuna
  6. Avicenna
  7. Thomas Aquinas
  8. Ibn Khaldun
  9. René Descartes
  10. John Locke
  11. Adam Smith
  12. Immanuel Kant
  13. Karl Marx
  14. Mary Wollstonecraft
  15. Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. Sigmund Freud

Religious figures[edit source]

  1. Zoroaster
  2. Abraham
  3. Moses
  4. Laozi
  5. Gautama Buddha
  6. Jesus
  7. Paul the Apostle
  8. Adi Shankara
  9. Muhammad
  10. Martin Luther

Politicians and leaders[edit source]

  1. Hammurabi
  2. Hatshepsut
  3. Ramesses II
  4. Cyrus the Great
  5. Pericles
  6. Alexander the Great
  7. Qin Shi Huang
  8. Julius Caesar
  9. Augustus
  10. Charlemagne
  11. Genghis Khan
  12. Suleiman the Magnificent
  13. Elizabeth I of England
  14. Catherine the Great
  15. George Washington
  16. Napoleon
  17. Simón Bolívar
  18. Shaka
  19. Abraham Lincoln
  20. Mahatma Gandhi
  21. Winston Churchill
  22. Adolf Hitler
  23. Joseph Stalin
  24. Mao Zedong
  25. Nelson Mandela

History (68 articles)[edit source]

  1. History
  2. Archaeology
  3. Civilization
  4. History of the world

History by region[edit source]

  1. History of Africa
  2. History of Asia
    1. History of East Asia
    2. History of India
    3. History of the Middle East
  3. History of Europe
  4. History of North America
  5. History of South America

Prehistory to post-classical history[edit source]

  1. Prehistory
  2. Ancient history
  3. Stone Age
    1. Mesopotamia
    2. Neolithic Revolution
    3. Sumer
  4. Bronze Age
    1. Ancient Egypt
    2. Assyria
    3. Indus Valley Civilization
    4. Mesoamerica
  5. Iron Age
    1. Ancient Greece
    2. Ancient Rome
    3. Achaemenid Empire
    4. Han dynasty
    5. Silk Road
  6. Post-classical history
    1. Middle Ages
      1. Black Death
      2. Byzantine Empire
      3. Crusades
      4. Holy Roman Empire
      5. Viking Age
    2. Islamic Golden Age
    3. Mongol Empire
    4. Ottoman Empire
    5. Tang dynasty

Modern history[edit source]

  1. Modern history
  2. The Renaissance
  3. Protestant Reformation
  4. Age of Discovery
  5. European colonization of the Americas
  6. Scientific revolution
  7. Age of Enlightenment
  8. Industrial Revolution
  9. French Revolution
  10. Abolitionism
  11. Scramble for Africa
  12. British Empire
  13. Russian Empire
  14. Soviet Union
  15. Women's suffrage
  16. World War I
  17. Great Depression
  18. World War II
  19. The Holocaust
  20. Cold War
  21. Space exploration

Histories of other subjects[edit source]

  1. History of art
  2. History of agriculture
  3. History of medicine
  4. History of science
  5. History of mathematics
  6. History of technology
  7. History of the Earth

Geography (91 articles)[edit source]

  1. Geography

Human geography[edit source]

  1. City
    1. Beijing
    2. Cairo
    3. Delhi
    4. Hong Kong
    5. Istanbul
    6. Jakarta
    7. Jerusalem
    8. London
    9. Mexico City
    10. Moscow
    11. Mumbai
    12. New York City
    13. Paris
    14. Rome
    15. São Paulo
    16. Singapore
    17. Tokyo
  2. Country
    1. Australia
    2. Bangladesh
    3. Brazil
    4. Canada
    5. China
    6. Democratic Republic of the Congo
    7. Egypt
    8. Ethiopia
    9. France
    10. Germany
    11. India
    12. Indonesia
    13. Iran
    14. Israel
    15. Italy
    16. Japan
    17. Mexico
    18. Nigeria
    19. Pakistan
    20. Philippines
    21. Poland
    22. Russia
    23. Saudi Arabia
    24. South Africa
    25. South Korea
    26. Spain
    27. Thailand
    28. Turkey
    29. United Kingdom
    30. United States
    31. Vietnam

Continents and regions[edit source]

  1. Continent
    1. Africa
    2. Antarctica
    3. Asia
    4. Europe
    5. Oceania
    6. North America
    7. South America
  2. Arctic
  3. Middle East

Hydrological features[edit source]

  1. Sea
    1. Arctic Ocean
    2. Atlantic Ocean
      1. Mediterranean Sea
    3. Indian Ocean
    4. Pacific Ocean
    5. Southern Ocean
  2. Lake
    1. Caspian Sea
    2. Great Lakes
    3. Lake Baikal
    4. Lake Victoria
  3. River
    1. Amazon River
    2. Mississippi River
    3. Nile
    4. Yangtze
  4. Great Barrier Reef

Terrestrial features[edit source]

  1. Land
  2. Desert
    1. Sahara
  3. Forest
  4. Glacier
  5. Grand Canyon
  6. Mountain
    1. Alps
    2. Andes
    3. Himalayas
      1. Mount Everest
    4. Rocky Mountains

Arts and culture (56 articles)[edit source]

  1. Aesthetics
  2. Library
  3. Museum
  4. The arts

Artistic movements[edit source]

  1. Gothic art
  2. Baroque
  3. Romanticism
  4. Modernism
  5. Postmodernism
  6. Popular culture

Architecture[edit source]

  1. Architecture
    1. Angkor Wat
    2. Colosseum
    3. Great Pyramid of Giza
    4. Great Wall of China
    5. Machu Picchu
    6. Parthenon
    7. Stonehenge
    8. Taj Mahal

Literature[edit source]

  1. Literature
  2. Book
  3. Fiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Prose
  6. Novel
  7. Short story
    Works
    1. Don Quixote
    2. Epic of Gilgamesh
    3. Mahabharata
    4. Shahnameh

Music[edit source]

  1. Music
  2. Musical instrument
  3. Singing
    Genres
    1. Classical music
    2. Folk music
    3. Hip hop music
    4. Jazz
    5. Pop music
    6. Rock music

Performing arts[edit source]

  1. Performing arts
  2. Dance
  3. Film
  4. Opera
  5. Orchestra
  6. Theatre
    1. Comedy
    2. Tragedy
    3. Musical theatre

Visual arts[edit source]

  1. Visual arts
  2. Animation
  3. Drawing
  4. Painting
    1. Mona Lisa
  5. Photography
  6. Pottery
  7. Sculpture

Philosophy and religion (59 articles)[edit source]

Philosophy[edit source]

  1. Philosophy
    Philosophical branches
    1. Ethics
      1. Golden Rule
      2. Good and evil
    2. Epistemology
      1. Belief
      2. Knowledge
      3. Reason
      4. Truth
    3. Logic
    4. Metaphysics
      1. Existence
      2. Ontology
      3. Free will
    Philosophy by region and period
    1. Western philosophy
      1. Ancient Greek philosophy
      2. Medieval philosophy
      3. Contemporary philosophy
    2. Eastern philosophy
      1. Confucianism
    Philosophical movements
    1. Pragmatism
    2. Analytic philosophy

Religion[edit source]

  1. Religion
  2. Afterlife
  3. Deity
    1. Atheism
    2. Theism
    3. God
  4. Esotericism
  5. Mythology
  6. Shamanism
  7. Soul
  8. Spirituality
  9. Meditation
  10. Prayer
  11. Worship

Specific religions[edit source]

  1. Buddhism
    1. Mahayana
    2. Theravada
    3. Vajrayana
  2. Christianity
    1. Bible
    2. Catholic Church
    3. Eastern Orthodox Church
    4. Protestantism
  3. Hinduism
    1. Vedas
    2. Upanishads
    3. Bhagavad Gita
  4. Islam
    1. Shia Islam
    2. Sunni Islam
    3. Quran
  5. Jainism
  6. Judaism
    1. Talmud
  7. Shinto
  8. Sikhism
  9. Taoism

Everyday life (89 articles)[edit source]

  1. Clothing
  2. Color
  3. Cooking
  4. Emotion
    1. Anger
    2. Fear
    3. Love
    4. Happiness
  5. Ethnic group
  6. Family
    1. Adult
    2. Child
    3. Infant
    4. Marriage
  7. Gender
    1. Man
    2. Woman
  8. Human sexuality
    1. Sexual orientation
  9. Job
  10. Mind
    1. Consciousness
    2. Thought
  11. Personal life
  12. Sleep
    1. Dream

Food and drink[edit source]

  1. Food
    1. Bread
    2. Cereal
    3. Cheese
    4. Egg
    5. Fruit
    6. Maize
    7. Meat
    8. Nut
    9. Potato
    10. Rice
    11. Soybean
    12. Spice
    13. Sugar
    14. Vegetable
    15. Wheat
    Drink
    1. Beer
    2. Coffee
    3. Drinking water
    4. Milk
    5. Tea
    6. Wine

Language[edit source]

  1. Language
  2. Linguistics
    Specific languages
    1. Arabic language
    2. Bengali language
    3. Chinese language
    4. English language
    5. French language
    6. German language
    7. Greek language
    8. Hindustani language
    9. Japanese language
    10. Latin
    11. Portuguese language
    12. Russian language
    13. Spanish language
  3. Indo-European languages
  4. Personal name
  5. Speech
  6. Writing
    1. Alphabet
    2. Arabic alphabet
    3. Brahmic scripts
    4. Chinese characters
    5. Cyrillic script
    6. Greek alphabet
    7. Latin script
  7. Grammar
  8. Word

Recreation and entertainment[edit source]

  1. Entertainment
  2. Recreation
  3. Game
    1. Board game
    2. Card game
    3. Video game
  4. Gambling
  5. Physical exercise
  6. Sport
    1. Association football
    2. Athletics
    3. Olympic Games
  7. Toy

Society and social sciences (100 articles)[edit source]

  1. Society
  2. Communication
  3. Community
  4. Culture
  5. School

Social issues[edit source]

  1. Abortion
  2. Civil liberties
  3. Disability
  4. Discrimination
    1. Racism
    2. Sexism
  5. Education
  6. Environmentalism
  7. Feminism
  8. Globalization
  9. Human rights
  10. Humanitarianism
  11. Indigenous peoples
  12. Law
    1. Constitution
    2. Crime
    3. Justice
    4. Police
    5. Property
  13. Peace
    1. Terrorism
    2. War
  14. Political freedom
    1. Slavery
  15. Pollution
  16. Poverty
  17. Privacy
  18. Suicide

Business and economics[edit source]

  1. Business
    1. Corporation
    2. Finance
    3. Management
    4. Tax
  2. Economics
    1. Employment
    2. Macroeconomics
    3. Microeconomics
    4. Supply and demand
    5. Trade
  3. Industry
    1. Agriculture
      1. Animal husbandry
      2. Domestication
    2. Construction
    3. Factory
    4. Fishing industry
    5. Hunting
    6. Manufacturing
    7. Mining
    8. Retail
    9. Tourism
  4. Money
    1. Bank
    2. Currency

Media[edit source]

  1. Advertising
  2. Broadcasting
  3. Journalism
  4. Magazine
  5. Mass media
  6. News
  7. Newspaper
  8. Publishing

Politics and government[edit source]

  1. Politics
    1. Colonialism
    2. Imperialism
  2. Government
    1. Capitalism
    2. Democracy
    3. Dictatorship
    4. Monarchy
    5. Secularism
    6. Socialism
    7. Theocracy
  3. Ideology
    1. Anarchism
    2. Communism
    3. Conservatism
    4. Fascism
    5. Liberalism
    6. Nationalism
  4. State
    1. Diplomacy
    2. Military
    International organizations
    1. European Union
    2. International Monetary Fund
    3. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
    4. NATO
    5. United Nations
    6. World Health Organization
    7. World Trade Organization

Social sciences[edit source]

  1. Social science
    1. Anthropology
    2. Political science
    3. Psychology
    4. Sociology

Health and medicine (39 articles)[edit source]

Illness[edit source]

  1. Allergy
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. Asthma
  4. Cancer
  5. Common cold
  6. COVID-19
  7. Diabetes mellitus
  8. Disease
  9. Gastroenteritis
  10. Influenza
  11. Major trauma
  12. Malaria
  13. Meningitis
  14. Mental disorder
    1. Autism
    2. Schizophrenia
  15. Myocardial infarction
  16. Pneumonia
  17. Sexually transmitted disease
    1. HIV/AIDS
  18. Smallpox
  19. Stroke
  20. Tuberculosis

Health and fitness[edit source]

  1. Ageing
  2. Drug
    1. Addiction
    2. Alcoholism
    3. Smoking
  3. Medicine
    1. Dentistry
    2. Surgery
  4. Health
  5. Malnutrition
  6. Nutrition
  7. Obesity
  8. Sanitation

Pharmaceuticals[edit source]

  1. Antibiotics
  2. Birth control
  3. Pharmaceutical drug
  4. Vaccine

Science (193 articles)[edit source]

  1. Science
  2. Nature
  3. Philosophy of science
  4. Scientific method

Astronomy[edit source]

  1. Astronomy
  2. Asteroid
  3. Big Bang
  4. Black hole
  5. Comet
  6. Galaxy
    1. Milky Way
  7. Natural satellite
  8. Orbit
  9. Outer space
  10. Physical cosmology
  11. Planet
  12. Solar System
    1. Sun
    2. Mercury
    3. Venus
    4. Earth
      1. Moon
    5. Mars
    6. Jupiter
    7. Saturn
    8. Uranus
    9. Neptune
  13. Star
  14. Supernova
  15. Universe

Biology[edit source]

  1. Biology
  2. Abiogenesis
  3. Anatomy
    1. Circulatory system
      1. Blood
      2. Heart
    2. Digestion
    3. Ear
    4. Eye
    5. Immune system
    6. Liver
    7. Lung
    8. Muscle
    9. Nervous system
      1. Brain
    10. Skeleton
    11. Skin
  4. Botany
  5. Cell
  6. Ecology
    1. Ecosystem
  7. Evolution
    1. Natural selection
  8. Genetics
    1. DNA
    2. Gene
    3. Heredity
    4. RNA
  9. Life
    1. Death
    2. Extinction
  10. Metabolism
  11. Molecular biology
  12. Organism
    1. Algae
    2. Animal
      1. Amphibian
      2. Bird
      3. Dinosaur
      4. Fish
      5. Insect
      6. Mammal
        1. Cattle
        2. Dog
        3. Horse
        4. Human
          1. Human body
      7. Reptile
    3. Archaea
    4. Bacteria
    5. Eukaryote
    6. Fungus
    7. Plant
      1. Flower
      2. Seed
      3. Tree
  13. Photosynthesis
  14. Reproduction
    1. Female
    2. Male
    3. Pregnancy
    4. Sex
  15. Species
  16. Virus
  17. Zoology

Chemistry[edit source]

  1. Chemistry
    1. Biochemistry
    2. Inorganic chemistry
    3. Organic chemistry
    4. Physical chemistry
  2. Acid
  3. Alloy
    1. Bronze
    2. Steel
  4. Atom
  5. Base
  6. Catalysis
  7. Chemical bond
  8. Chemical compound
    1. Carbon dioxide
    2. Salt
    3. Water
  9. Chemical element
    1. Aluminium
    2. Carbon
    3. Copper
    4. Gold
    5. Hydrogen
    6. Iron
    7. Nitrogen
    8. Oxygen
    9. Silicon
    10. Silver
  10. Chemical reaction
  11. Electrolysis
  12. Ion
  13. Metal
  14. Mineral
  15. Molecule
  16. Periodic table

Earth science[edit source]

  1. Earth science
  2. Geology
    1. Earthquake
    2. Erosion
    3. Plate tectonics
    4. Rock
    5. Structure of the Earth
    6. Volcano
  3. Climate
    1. Atmosphere of Earth
    2. Cloud
    3. Flood
    4. Global warming
    5. Rain
    6. Season
    7. Snow
    8. Tornado
    9. Tropical cyclone
    10. Weather
    11. Wind
  4. Map
  5. Soil

Physics[edit source]

  1. Physics
  2. Classical mechanics
    1. Newton's laws of motion
  3. Energy
  4. Force
    1. Electromagnetism
    2. Gravitation
    3. Strong interaction
    4. Weak interaction
  5. Light
    1. Electromagnetic radiation
    2. Optics
    3. Speed of light
  6. Magnetism
  7. Mass
  8. Matter
    1. State of matter
  9. Measurement
    1. Metric system
  10. Momentum
  11. Motion
  12. Particle physics
    1. Standard Model
    2. Subatomic particle
      1. Electron
      2. Neutrino
      3. Neutron
      4. Photon
      5. Proton
  13. Quantum mechanics
  14. Sound
  15. Space
  16. Theory of relativity
  17. Thermodynamics
    1. Heat
    2. Temperature
  18. Time
    1. Day
    2. Year
  19. Vacuum
  20. Wave

Technology (111 articles)[edit source]

  1. Technology
  2. Engineering
  3. Artificial intelligence
  4. Biotechnology
  5. Genetic engineering
  6. Nuclear technology
  7. Tool

Energy[edit source]

  1. Electricity
  2. Fossil fuel
    1. Coal
    2. Natural gas
    3. Petroleum
  3. Nuclear power
  4. Renewable energy
    1. Hydropower
    2. Solar energy
    3. Wind power

Electronics[edit source]

  1. Electronics
  2. Battery
  3. Incandescent light bulb
  4. Integrated circuit
  5. Semiconductor device
    1. Transistor

Mechanical and structural engineering[edit source]

  1. Mechanical engineering
  2. Engine
    1. Electric motor
    2. Internal combustion engine
    3. Jet engine
    4. Steam engine
  3. Robot
  4. Simple machine
  5. Wheel
  6. Arch
  7. Bridge
  8. Canal
  9. Dam
  10. Fortification
  11. House
  12. Infrastructure
  13. Road
  14. Tower

Transportation[edit source]

  1. Transport
  2. Aircraft
  3. Bicycle
  4. Car
  5. Rail transport
  6. Ship

Computing and information technology[edit source]

  1. Computing
  2. Abacus
  3. Calculator
  4. Computer
  5. Computer science
  6. Cryptography

Optical[edit source]

  1. Camera
  2. Laser
  3. Lens
  4. Microscope
  5. Telescope

Media and communication[edit source]

  1. Internet
  2. Mail
  3. Mobile phone
  4. Printing
  5. Radio
  6. Telecommunication
  7. Telephone
  8. Television
  9. Video

Navigation and timekeeping[edit source]

  1. Navigation
  2. Calendar
  3. Clock
  4. Compass
  5. Global Positioning System
  6. Gyroscope
  7. Pendulum
  8. Radar
  9. Sundial

Weapons[edit source]

  1. Weapon
  2. Artillery
  3. Bow and arrow
  4. Firearm
  5. Knife
  6. Nuclear weapon
  7. Submarine
  8. Sword
  9. Tank

Material and chemical[edit source]

  1. Candle
  2. Explosive material
  3. Fire
  4. Gasoline
  5. Glass
  6. Gunpowder
  7. Masonry
  8. Metallurgy
  9. Natural rubber
  10. Paper
  11. Plastic
  12. Textile
  13. Wood

Food and health[edit source]

  1. Anesthesia
  2. Fertilizer
  3. Hospital
  4. Medical imaging
  5. Pasteurization
  6. Refrigeration
  7. Stove

Space[edit source]

  1. Moon landing
  2. Rocket
  3. Satellite
    1. Hubble Space Telescope
  4. Spaceflight
  5. International Space Station

Mathematics (56 articles)[edit source]

  1. Mathematics
  2. Algebra
    1. Equation
    2. Variable
  3. Algorithm
  4. Arithmetic
    1. Addition
    2. Subtraction
    3. Multiplication
    4. Division
    5. Fraction
    6. Exponentiation
    7. Logarithm
    8. nth root
  5. Combinatorics
  6. Geometry
    1. Angle
      1. Trigonometry
    2. Area
    3. Coordinate system
    4. Dimension
    5. Line
    6. Plane
    7. Point
    8. Shape
      1. Circle
      2. Conic section
      3. Polygon
      4. Polyhedron
      5. Sphere
      6. Triangle
    9. Volume

  1. Mathematical analysis
    1. Calculus
    2. Function
    3. Infinity
    4. Limit
  2. Mathematical optimization
  3. Mathematical proof
  4. Number
    1. Complex number
    2. Numerical digit
    3. Integer
      1. Natural number
        1. Prime number
    4. Number theory
    5. Real number
      1. Rational number
    Mathematical constants
    1. 0
    2. e
    3. Pi
  5. Probability
  6. Series
  7. Set
  8. Statistics
  9. Topology

See also[edit source]