Wikipedia:Good articles
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Good Articles in Wikipedia Currently, 930 articles are listed here as meeting the good article criteria: in short, they should be well written, stable, accurate, referenced, use a neutral point of view, and wherever possible, be illustrated by appropriately tagged images. Good articles may not be as thorough and detailed as our featured articles, but should not omit any major facets of the topic. The process for designating articles as 'good' is simpler and quicker than that for featured articles. If you find or write an article meeting the criteria, you can add it to the nominations page for an impartial reviewer to assess and, if successful, add to this list. Articles are removed if promoted to featured status or delisted for not meeting the criteria: any editor can do this by following the delisting instructions. If an article's nomination fails or it is delisted, pointers should be given on its talk page on how to improve it to reach the criteria. Disagreements can be resolved on the disputes page. WikiProject Good articles helps to maintain the process. |
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.jpg?lang=en) Recently listed good articles Alphabet — Battle of Lechaeum — Charmander — Churchill, Winston — Final Fantasy X — Final Fantasy X-2 — Great Pyramid of Giza — Larrys Creek — Macbeth of Scotland — Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp — Puerto Rico — Rand, Ayn — Scotland — Team CSC | |
Archaeology
Archaeology — Egyptian pyramids — Great Pyramid of Giza — Mummy — (4 articles)
Architecture
Hawaiian architecture — Kitchen — Moana Hotel — Presidio of Santa Barbara — Sears Catalog Home — (5 articles)
Art
Carolingian Gospel Book (British Library, MS Add. 11848) — Drawing — Harlem Renaissance — Schuttern Gospels — White Mountain art — (5 articles)
Biographies of artists
Kandinsky, Wassily — Mondrian, Piet — Moore, Alan — (3 articles)
Museums and galleries
Fremantle Prison — National Gallery, London — (2 articles)
Animals and plants (living and extinct)
Ammonite — Atlantic herring — Bird — Bottlenose Dolphin — Carcinus maenas — Cubeb — Dog — Drosophila melanogaster — Elephant — Nepenthes rajah — Oceanic Whitetip Shark — Sequoia — Spider — Tuatara — (14 articles)
Biographies of biologists and medical scientists
Darwin, Charles — Dawkins, Richard — Gage, Phineas — (3 articles)
Biology
Arp2/3 complex — Bacteria — Bioinformatics — Biology — Brain — Cell (biology) — DNA — Eukaryote — Extraterrestrial life — Eutrophication — Insulin — Lipid — Photosynthetic reaction centre — Polymerase chain reaction — Prion — Protein — Virus — (17 articles)
Evolution and reproduction
Alternation of generations — Evolution of sex — Fitness landscape — Mitochondrial Eve — Punctuated equilibrium — (5 articles)
Health and medicine
Black Death — Cancer — Common cold — Contact lens — Cystic fibrosis — Emergency department — Female hysteria — H5N1 — Hepatocellular carcinoma — HIV — Kuru (disease) — Malaria — Measles — Nutrition — Rabies — Smallpox — Snakebite (bite) — Vacutainer — (18 articles)
Biographies of chemists and materials scientists
Lavoisier, Antoine — (1 articles)
Chemicals
Aluminium — Aluminium chloride — Ammonia — Benzene — Caesium fluoride — Calcium chloride — Carbon dioxide — Chlorine — Cocaine — Copper(I) chloride — CS gas — Ethanol — Formic acid — Gold(III) chloride — Hydrogen — Hydrogen peroxide — Iron(III) chloride — Lithium aluminium hydride — Menthol — Mercury (element) — Methylenedioxymethamphetamine — Phosphorus tribromide — Phosphorus trichloride — Phosphoryl chloride — Potassium iodide — Rhodium(III) chloride — Sodium sulfate — Tin(II) chloride — Toluene — Water — Zinc chloride — (31 articles)
Chemistry
Computational chemistry — History of chemistry — Quantum chemistry — (3 articles)
Materials science
Corrosion — Damascus steel — Fiberglass — Optical fiber — Steel — Wood — (6 articles)
Cryptography
Brute force attack — (1 articles)
Hardware and infrastructure
Computer — Grid computing — Microsoft Windows — Model M Keyboard — X Window System protocols and architecture — (5 articles)
Programming
BASIC — C++ — Imperative programming — Perl — (4 articles)
Software
Internet Explorer — Napster — Opera (web browser) — (3 articles)
Websites and the Internet
All your base are belong to us — Facebook — History of the Internet — Wiki — (4 articles)
Cultural and social studies
Gender — Popular culture studies — Sociology — (3 articles)
Cultural phenomena, movements and subcultures
Bills — Dada — Gay bathhouse — Incest — Snake charming — (5 articles)
Festivities
Chinese New Year — Halloween — Santa Claus — (3 articles)
Peoples
Crimean Karaites — Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo — Defaka — Irish people — Jew — Melungeon — Terik — (7 articles)
Biographies of businesspeople
Branson, Richard — Carnegie, Andrew — Flagler, Henry Morrison — Gates, Bill — Rogers, Henry H. — Swift, Gustavus Franklin — (6 articles)
Businesses
Argyle diamond mine — AT&T — Fawcett Publications — Google — Hochtief AG — Intel — Sinclair Research Ltd — Wells Fargo — (8 articles)
Economics
Advertising — Agriculture — Behavioral finance — Blanchflower, David — Bretton Woods system — Cooperative — Depreciation — Euro — Globalization — Hubbert peak theory — Social Security (United States) — Spice trade — (12 articles)
Education
Academy — Education in the United States — Encyclopædia Britannica — Policy debate — (4 articles)
Educational institutions
Ateneo de Manila University — Cambridge University — Dartmouth College — Illinois Institute of Technology — North Carolina State University — Ohio Wesleyan University — Plano Senior High School — Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering — Scotch College, Perth — Stuyvesant High School — University of Texas at Austin — (11 articles)
Biographies of engineers and inventors
Edison, Thomas — von Braun, Wernher — (2 articles)
Engineering and technology
$100 laptop — Apple Computer — ECHELON — iPod — iTunes — Lightning rod — Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — Solar panel — (8 articles)
Biographies of geographers and explorers
Benjamin of Tudela — Ibn Battuta — (2 articles)
Countries
Afghanistan — Algeria — Bangladesh — Bolivia — Brazil — Canada — Ethiopia — France — Iran — Israel — Japan — Morocco — Northern Ireland — Papua New Guinea — Scotland — Singapore — South Korea — United States — (18 articles)
Geography
Global warming — Map projection — Urbanization — (3 articles)
Places
Amarillo, Texas — Atlanta, Georgia — Augusta, Georgia — Berlin — Birmingham — Cape Town — Chicago, Illinois — Chinyingi — Copenhagen — Dewey Square — Dublin — Duluth, Minnesota — Glasgow — Goleta, California — Hampshire — Heilbronn — Houston, Texas — Jacksonville, Florida — Karachi — Kolkata — Lhasa — Limerick — Los Angeles, California — Manchester — Miami, Florida — New York City — Newark, New Jersey — Norfolk, England — Paris — Patna — Puerto Rico — Rhode Island — Salt Lake City, Utah — San Francisco, California — Santorini — Southern United States — Sydney — Tibet — Timbuktu — Toronto — Washington, D.C. — West Virginia — (42 articles)
Landforms
Avacha Volcano — Colima (volcano) — Galeras — Koryaksky — Lake Kariba — Larrys Creek — Mauna Loa — Mount Baker — Mount Merapi, Central Java — Mount Nyiragongo — Mount Osmond, South Australia — Mount Rainier — Mount Unzen — Pacaya — Sakurajima — Santamaría (volcano) — Ulawun — Vakhsh — (18 articles)
Parks, conservation areas, and historical sites
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — Fort de Chartres — Mammoth Cave National Park — (3 articles)
Geology and geophysics
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake — Black Sea deluge theory — Boltysh crater — Dorset (geology of) — Eruption column — Eutrophication — Glacier — History of Earth — Iceland hotspot — Post-glacial rebound — Sandur — Snowball Earth — Tsunami — Volcanic pipe — Volcano — Water resources — (16 articles)
Mineralogy
Crystallographic defects in diamond — Diamond cut — Diamond simulant — Material properties of diamond — Pyrite — (5 articles)
Historians, chroniclers and history books
Guns, Germs, and Steel — Hydatius — Procopius — Tacitean studies — (4 articles)
Biographies of historical figures
Abdi-Heba — Akhenaten — al-Ghamdi, Saeed — al-Hazmi, Salem — al-Mihdhar, Khalid — al-Sayed, Mohamed Atta — al-Shehhi, Marwan — Babur — Baldwin I of Jerusalem — Banihammad, Fayez — Charlemagne — Godwin, Earl of Wessex — Hanjour, Hani — Hatshepsut — Hitler, Adolf — Labaya — Macbeth of Scotland — Malcolm X — Mossadegh, Mohammed — Musashi, Miyamoto — Ramesses II — Yaqob, Zara — Óengus I of the Picts — (23 articles)
Africa
History of South Africa — History of South Africa in the apartheid era — Operation Entebbe — Trans-Saharan trade — Vandals — (5 articles)
Americas
Boston molasses disaster — California and the railroads — Cleveland Torso Murderer — Collapse of the World Trade Center — History of Louisville, Kentucky — History of South Carolina — Inca Empire — John F. Kennedy assassination — Kent State shootings — Million Worker March — Mission San Juan Capistrano — New Jersey in the Twentieth Century — New York World's Fair (1964) — Population history of American indigenous peoples — Roaring Twenties — Shining Path — Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — Territory of Hawaii — Trinity test — United States Declaration of Independence — Ursuline Convent Riots — (21 articles)
Asia and Oceania
Indian Independence Movement — Khazars — Knights Hospitaller — Silk Road — Sino-Roman relations — (5 articles)
Europe
Berlin Wall — Beslan school hostage crisis — Chernobyl accident — Constantinople — Dark Ages — Dál Riata — Funeral of Pope John Paul II — Great Famine of 1315–1317 — Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire (2005) — Kalmar Union — Magna Carta — Picts — Roman Republic — Sino-Roman relations — Soviet Union — The Holocaust — Vandals — Viking — (18 articles)
World history
1973 oil crisis — 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal — British Empire — February 15, 2003 anti-war protest — History of science — History of the world — Industrial Revolution — (7 articles)
Words and language
Behistun Inscription — Literacy — Truthiness — (3 articles)
Alphabets and transliteration
Alphabet — Latin alphabet — Pinyin — Theta — (4 articles)
Languages
Bench language — Chenoua language — English language — Esperanto — Fur language — German language — Logba language — Niellim language — Nobiin language — Old Nubian language — Phla-Pherá languages — Sanskrit — Senufo languages — Shabo language — Soddo language — Sudanic languages — Tagoi language — Weyto language — (18 articles)
Biographies of lawyers, judges and legal academics
Harlan II, John Marshall — (1 articles)
Crime, criminals and punishment
Bali Nine — Crime — Elizabeth Smart kidnapping — Fremantle Prison — Nevada-tan — Rosenberg, Julius & Ethel — (6 articles)
Law
Australian constitutional law — Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution — National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications — Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. — (4 articles)
Biographies of writers and critics
Borges, Jorge Luis — Cummings, E. E. — Cædmon — Dickinson, Emily — Goldfaden, Abraham — Hemingway, Ernest — Hugo, Victor — Pushkin, Aleksandr — Rand, Ayn — Shakespeare, William — Upfield, Arthur — Wilde, Oscar — (12 articles)
Literature
Allegory in the Middle Ages — Anglo-Saxon literature — Ars moriendi — Floris and Blancheflour — Mission Earth (novel) — Persian literature — Shigin — The Western Star — Treasure Island — (9 articles)
Biographies of mathematicians
Turing, Alan — (1 articles)
Mathematics
Gödel's incompleteness theorems — Mathematical analysis — Mathematics — Ordinal number — Philosophy of mathematics — Pythagorean theorem — Statistics — (7 articles)
Actors, models and other media personalities
Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch — Clark, Robert — Garland, Judy — Jenner, Edward — Jovovich, Milla — Otto, Miranda — Page, Bettie — Robinson, Andrew — Schwarzenegger, Arnold — (9 articles)
Fictional characters
Darth Vader — James Bond — Mickey Mouse — Palpatine — (4 articles)
Cinema
Film — Hollywood blacklist — Horror film — Silent film — (4 articles)
Films
Metropolis — Soylent Green — Star Wars — The Lion King — (4 articles)
Journalism
Altgens, Ike — Seigenthaler Sr., John — (2 articles)
Media
BBC — Megatokyo — Monty Python — Podcasting — Television — (5 articles)
Television shows
Avatar: The Last Airbender — Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Josie and the Pussycats — Lost — Prisoner — Sesame Street — Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Stargate SG-1 — The Star Wars Holiday Special — (9 articles)
By nation, people, region or country
American popular music — Filipino hip hop — Gnawa music — Music of Albania — Music of Armenia — Music of California — Music of Finland — Music of Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias — Music of Georgia (U.S. state) — Music of Hawaii — Music of Hungary — Music of Ireland — Music of Kentucky — Music of Kuwait — Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe — Music of New Zealand — Music of Poland — Music of Spain — Music of Texas — Music of Thailand — Music of the Bahamas — Music of the Lesser Antilles — Music of Trinidad and Tobago — (23 articles)
Genres, styles and music eras
Atonality — Barbershop music — Bastard pop — Bluegrass music — Bossa nova — Burgundian School — Classic female blues — Disco — Folk music — Garage (dance music) — Italo disco — Medieval music — Minstrel show — Music of the trecento — Outlaw country — Ragtime — Rapping — Reggae — Reggaeton — Renaissance music — Rhythm and blues — Ska — Soukous — (23 articles)
Instruments
Bassoon — Cello — Clarinet — Recorder — String instrument — Suikinkutsu — Synthesizer — (7 articles)
Music festivals
Glastonbury Festival — (1 articles)
Performers and composers
Ashlee Simpson — Billie Holiday — Black Flag (band) — Bob Marley — Brand New — Britney Spears — Bruce Springsteen — Cat Stevens — Christina Aguilera — Death In June — Dru Hill — Eazy-E — Garbage (band) — Grateful Dead — Green Day — Henry Rollins — Hugo Wolf — Kurt Cobain — lostprophets — Louis Jordan — Marvin Gaye — Neil Young — Oasis (band) — Pixies — Sonic Youth — Sonny Rollins — Streetlight Manifesto — Syd Barrett — The Band — The Smashing Pumpkins — Tupac Shakur — Van Halen — (32 articles)
Recordings and compositions
Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album) — Beatles for Sale — Bringin' on the Heartbreak — Dido and Aeneas — Extraordinary Machine — Illmatic — Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too — Pet Sounds — Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — Shadow — Supernature (Goldfrapp album) — The Rite of Spring — This Charming Man — Tumbling Dice — Venus and Adonis (opera) — We Belong Together — Where Did Our Love Go — (17 articles)
Biographies of philosphers
Aristotle — Fodor, Jerry — Hume, David — Kierkegaard, Søren — Popper, Karl — Russell, Bertrand — (6 articles)
Philosophical thought and movements
Analytical Marxism — Anomalous monism — Dualism (philosophy of mind) — Eliminative materialism — Semantic holism — Transhumanism — Zeno's paradoxes — (7 articles)
Biographers of astronomers and physicists
Flamsteed, John — Hawking, Stephen — (2 articles)
Astronomy
2003 UB313 — Asteroid — Cassini-Huygens — Cosmic inflation — Cosmic microwave background radiation — Diffuse interstellar band — Enceladus (moon) — Great Comet of 1882 — Great Red Spot — HD 209458 b — Hubble's law — Leo — Luminiferous aether — Moon — Pleiades (star cluster) — PSR B1620-26c — Redshift — Scattered disc — String theory — Terraforming — (20 articles)
Planets
Earth — Mercury (planet) — Neptune — Planet — (4 articles)
Atmospheric physics and meteorology
1997 Pacific hurricane season — 2004 Atlantic hurricane season — 2005 Atlantic hurricane season — Climate change — Hurricane Andrew — Hurricane Claudette (2003) — Hurricane David — Hurricane Georges — Hurricane Ivan — Hurricane Katrina — Hurricane Nora (1997) — Red rain in Kerala — (12 articles)
Physics
Casimir effect — Isospin — Physical paradox — Physics — Plasma (physics) — Quark — Schrödinger equation — Sound — Special relativity — Thermodynamics — Ultraviolet — (11 articles)
Biographies of politically significant people
Brown, Gordon — Churchill, Winston — Hackett, Paul — Mahone, William — Marshall, John — Nader, Ralph — Piłsudski, Józef — Reagan, John Henninger — Roosevelt, Franklin D. — Schwarzenegger, Arnold — Seigenthaler Sr., John — Sharon, Ariel — Sumner, Charles — Truman, Harry S. — (14 articles)
Politics and government
Congressional stagnation in the United States — Democratic Action Party — Diplomacy — European Parliament — Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of India — Government of France — International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement — Killian documents — Liberal Democrats — Parliament of Malaysia — Portuguese Communist Party — Social contract (Malaysia) — Stop the War Coalition — United for Peace and Justice — United Malays National Organisation — WorkChoices — (16 articles)
Psychology
Borderline personality disorder — Intelligence (trait) — Psychotherapy — Social anxiety — Stanford prison experiment — (5 articles)
Biographies of psychologists
Caperton, Idit Harel — Freud, Sigmund — Skinner, Burrhus Frederic — (3 articles)
Divinities
Apollo — Ganesha — God — Satan — (4 articles)
Myths
Atlantis — King Arthur — (2 articles)
Religion and science
Creation science — Creation-evolution controversy — Creationism — Intelligent design — (4 articles)
Religious disputes
Chinese Rites controversy — (1 articles)
Religious figures and leaders
Biblical Magi — Farrar, Janet — Jesus — Paul of Tarsus — Pope John Paul II — Race of Jesus — Rama — Ramana Maharshi — (8 articles)
Religious movements, traditions and organizations
Calvinism — Celtic mythology — Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Islam — Judaism — Kalachakra — Norse mythology — Opus Dei — Religious Society of Friends — Shentong — Stregheria — Witchcraft — (12 articles)
Religous texts
Documentary hypothesis — Merseburg Incantations — Peshitta — Ten Commandments — Tibetan Buddhist canon — (5 articles)
Heraldry
Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI — (1 articles)
Royalty and nobility
Hirohito — Prince George, Duke of Kent — Władysław IV Vasa — (3 articles)
Biographies of people known in connection with sport and games
Beckham, David — Bradshaw, Terry — Brady, Tom — Fischer, Bobby — Konnan — Mantle, Mickey — Ruth, Babe — (7 articles)
Computer and video games
Charizard — Charmander — Computer and video games — Final Fantasy — Final Fantasy IV — Final Fantasy VI — Final Fantasy VII — Final Fantasy VIII — Final Fantasy IX — Final Fantasy X — Final Fantasy X-2 — Half-Life 2 — List of Mega Man weapons — Magic: The Gathering — Mario — Mythology of Final Fantasy X — Speedrun — Spira (Final Fantasy X) — Super Mario Bros. — The Legend of Zelda series — The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time — Torchic — Video game crash of 1983 — (23 articles)
Games
Dice — Junta (game) — Poker — (3 articles)
Sport
Airsoft — American football — Football (soccer) — Medieval hunting — Palio di Siena — Sumo — (6 articles)
Sports teams
Brøndby IF — Chicago Bears — Georgetown Hoyas — History of the West Indian cricket team — National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) — Team CSC — (6 articles)
Air transport
Airship — Alberto Santos-Dumont — Hot air balloon — (3 articles)
Individual trains and locomotives
2-6-0 — 2-8-0 — 4-2-0 — 4-4-0 — 4-6-0 — 6-2-0 — Beep (SWBLW) — CF7 — EMD BL2 — EMD F7 — EMD GP30 — FM Consolidated line — Gas turbine-electric locomotive — General Pershing Zephyr — M-10001 — M-10003-6 — Pere Marquette 1225 — PRR GG1 — PRR M1 — SD26 — Southern Pacific 4449 — Timken 1111 — (22 articles)
Maritime transport
Gowanus Canal — History of the Panama Canal — (2 articles)
Railroad transport
Algoma Central Railway — Amtrak — Atlantic Coast Line Railroad — Autorack — Bay Area Rapid Transit — Beeching Axe — Boston and Lowell Railroad — Bourbonnais train accident — Chicago and North Western Railway — Coupling (railway) — Cyrus K. Holliday — Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad — Danske Statsbaner — Disneyland Railroad — Ffestiniog Railway — First Transcontinental Railroad — Florida East Coast Railway — Graniteville train disaster — Liverpool and Manchester Railway — Maglev train — Montreal Metro — New York City Subway nomenclature — Northern Pacific Railway — Novelty (locomotive) — Overseas Railroad — Passenger car — Pennsylvania Railroad — Railway post office — Rainhill Trials — Refrigerator car — RER — San Diegan — San Diego and Arizona Railway — San Diego Electric Railway — Snaefell Mountain Railway — Stock car (rail) — Stourbridge Lion — Super Chief — Szybka Kolej Miejska — The Canadian — Trans-Siberian Railway — Virginian Railway — Washington Metro — Washington streetcars — Western Railway Corridor — Weyauwega derailment — (46 articles)
Railway bridges and train stations
Chepstow Bridge — Forth Bridge (railway) — Grand Central Terminal — Jordanhill railway station — Tay Rail Bridge — (5 articles)
Road transport
Chevrolet Corvette — Filling station — Forth Road Bridge — Harley-Davidson — Lexus LS — Lincoln (automobile) — Lincoln Town Car — MINI (BMW) — Oldsmobile — U.S. Route 66 — (10 articles)
Armies and military units
Dahomey Amazons — Jomsvikings — Sassanid army — (3 articles)
Biographies of military people
Butler, Smedley — Ellsberg, Daniel — Marlin Voris, Roy — Morant, Breaker — Pershing, John — Rommel, Erwin — von Boeselager, Georg — (7 articles)
Conflicts, battles and military exercises
Able Archer 83 — Albigensian Crusade — American Revolutionary War — Battle of France — Battle of Lechaeum — Battle of Sitka — Battle of Stalingrad — Battle of Tours — Battle of Vaslui — Chadian-Sudanese conflict — Children's Crusade — Crusade — Crusade of 1101 — German Crusade, 1096 — Hood event — Indonesian Civil War — Napoleonic Wars — Norman conquest of England — Operation Opera — Pontiac's Rebellion — Second Boer War — Siege of Antioch — Spanish Civil War — Third Servile War — Wars of Castro — World War II — (26 articles)
Legal issues and treaties
Japanese war crimes — NATO — Prisoner of war — Tripoli Agreement — (4 articles)
Weapons and military equipment
Aircraft carrier — Effects of nuclear explosions — History of nuclear weapons — Lockheed SR-71 — M16 rifle — T-34 — Tsar Bomba — (7 articles)
Military camps, tribunals and facilities
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp — (1 articles)