Wikipedia:Featured articles

This page highlights some of the Wikipedia pages we think are particularly well-written and complete. However, since there are hundreds of thousands of articles on Wikipedia, we can't keep track of all of the great ones. In order to put an article on this page, it must first pass a review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates for style, prose and completeness. While we think these are some of our best articles, we are always working to improve them, so be bold in updating pages.

At present, there are 394 Featured Articles, out of a total of 6,907,970 articles on the Wikipedia.

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See also: Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, a project to bring one new article up to featured standard each week.

Art and archaeology

Art competitions at the Olympic Games – Greek art – Leonardo da Vinci – Henry Moore – Oxyrhynchus – Parthenon – Rembrandt

Biology and medicine

Acetaminophen – Action potential – Asperger's syndrome – Bioinformatics – Bloodletting – Brolga – Cladistics – DNA repair – Gene – Helicobacter pylori – Humpback Whale – Kakapo – Menstrual cycle – Mixed-breed dog – Mitochondrial Eve – Orca – Platypus – Race – Rhazes – Severe acute respiratory syndrome – Sperm Whale – Synapse – Tuberculosis

Chemistry

Helium – LSD – Linus Pauling – Periodic table – Titanium

Culture and society

Abbey Theatre – Baroque – Bathing machine – Exploding whale – Freemasonry – Gender role – Greco-Buddhism – Great Mosque of Djenné – Kitsch – Korean name – Lollapalooza – Mail – Mor lam – Prostitution – Martha Stewart – Villain

Education

Academia – Peer review

Economics

Billboard (advertising) – Economics – Euro – London Congestion Charge – Labour economics

Food and drink

Beer – Coca-Cola – Kashrut – Single malt Scotch – Tea

Geography

Aztalan State Park – Belgium – Bryce Canyon National Park – Buckinghamshire – Byzantine Empire – Carlsbad Caverns National Park – Chinatown – City status in the United Kingdom – Congo Free State – Éire – Enclave – India – Isan – Marshall, Texas – Montparnasse – Mount St. Helens – Ferdinand Magellan – Newark, New Jersey – People's Republic of China – Provinces of Thailand – Ridge Route – Rondane National Park – Traditional counties of England – Yellowstone National Park – Zion National Park

History

Adoption in Rome – Attila the Hun – Aryan invasion theory – Behistun Inscription – British East India Company – Dreyfus Affair – England expects that every man will do his duty – Eureka Stockade – Franks – Galveston Hurricane of 1900 – George Fox – History of Germany – History of Greenland – History of Scotland – History of the Netherlands – History of the Peerage – Indus Valley Civilization – Laika – MKULTRA – Sino-Soviet split – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 – Treaty of Devol – Warsaw Uprising – White Rose

Language

Noam Chomsky – Leet – Mandarin (linguistics) – Portuguese language – Russian language – Split infinitive – Taiwanese (linguistics) – Thou – Vowel – Vulgar Latin

Law

Common scold – Copyright – James Bulger murder case – Leopold and Loeb – Lawrence v. Texas – Negligence – Paragraph 175

Literature

Alliterative verse – Isaac Asimov – Samuel Beckett – Crime fiction – Du Fu – English poetry – Foundation Series – James Joyce – Rudyard Kipling – Irish poetry – Irish theatre – Nella Larsen – H. P. Lovecraft – Medieval literature – Middle-earth – Chuck Palahniuk – Poetry – Poetry of the United States – Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius – Voynich Manuscript – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Mathematics

Ackermann function – Algorithm – Fractal – Infinite monkey theorem – Triangle – Trigonometric function

Media

All your base are belong to us – Batman – Calvin and Hobbes – Casablanca (movie) – Coronation Street – Humphrey Bogart – Felix the Cat – Have I Got News For You – Ian McKellen – Jim Henson – Alfred Hitchcock – Nineteen Eighty-Four – Not the Nine O'Clock News – Star Trek – Superman – Quatermass and the Pit – Western movie

Music

Louis Armstrong – The Beatles – Johnny Cash – Miles Davis – A Day in the Life – Donegal fiddle tradition – Bob Dylan – Gramophone record – Heavy metal music – Heavy metal umlaut – Hey Jude – Charles Ives – Jazz – The Long and Winding Road – Madonna – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Roy Orbison – Gram Parsons – Punk rock – Saxophone – Sex Pistols – Simon and Garfunkel – Dmitri Shostakovich – Something – Igor Stravinsky – Yesterday

Philosophy

Frankfurt School – Free will – Paradox – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Physics, astrophysics and geophysics

1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens – Black hole – Cold fusion – Comet – Richard Feynman – Fermi paradox – Galileo Galilei – Geology of the Bryce Canyon area – Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area – Geyser – Io (moon) – Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak – Plate tectonics – Quantum mechanics – Rainbow – Roche limit – Carl Sagan – Soap bubble – Speed of light – Transit of Venus – Weather lore

Politics and government

2004 Democratic National Convention – Mark Antony – Article One of the United States Constitution – Assassin – Julius Caesar – European Union – First Amendment to the United States Constitution – Governor-General of India – Charles Graner – Hutton Inquiry – Irish Houses of Parliament – Japan general election, 2003 – Bruno Kreisky – Mark Latham – Abraham Lincoln – Lord Chancellor – John Major – Sid McMath – Emperor Norton – Barack Obama – Parliament of the United Kingdom – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. – President of Ireland – Privy Council – Propaganda – ROC presidential election, 2004 – Royal Assent – Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 – Separation of powers under the United States Constitution – Margaret Thatcher – Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution – Tynwald Day – United States Constitution – U.S. Electoral College – Mordechai Vanunu – Gough Whitlam – Ralph Yarborough – Zionism

Psychology

Milgram experiment – Psychosis – Schizophrenia – Prisoner's dilemma

Religion and beliefs

Anno Domini – Bible code – Buddhism – Christianity – End times – Father Damien – Greek mythology – Hinduism – Hebrew calendar – Holy Prepuce – Papal election – Revised Standard Version – Shakers – Vampire

Royalty, nobility and chivalry

Anne of Great Britain – Charles I of England – Charles II of England – Coronation of the British monarch – Edward VI of England – Elizabeth I of England – George I of Great Britain – George II of Great Britain – George III of the United Kingdom – Henry VIII of England – Hereditary peer – James I of England – James II of England – Louis XIV of France – Mary I of England – Mary II of England – Order of the Bath – Order of the Garter – Order of the Thistle – Peerage – Prince-elector – Rights and privileges of peers

Sport and games

Bishojo game – Blackjack –Bodyline – Bullfighting – Chariot racing – Chess – Cricket – DOOM – Go (board game) – Golden age of arcade games – Anatoly Karpov – Garry Kasparov – Fanny Blankers-Koen – LEGO – Monopoly (game) – Montreal Canadiens – Paul Morphy – Olympic Flame – Olympic Games – Poker – Rock, Paper, Scissors – Seabiscuit – Suzanne Lenglen – Summer Olympic Games – Jim Thorpe

Technology

Application Programming Interface – ASCII – C programming language – CPU cache – Color Graphics Adapter – Computer security – Crash test dummy – Damascus steel – Data Encryption Standard – Domestic AC power plugs & sockets – Electronic amplifier – Emacs – Enigma machine – Floppy disk – Fountain pen – Glass – GNU/Linux naming controversy – Gramophone record – History of computing hardware – Horseshoe – Hubble Space Telescope – Java programming language – Jet engine – Markup language – Nuclear weapon – PaX – Phonograph cylinder – Quantum computer – Radar – RISC – Search engine – Spacecraft propulsion – Spamming – Speech synthesis – Typewriter – Telephone exchange – World Wide Web – Zuiderzee Works

Transport

Auto rickshaw – Ford Mustang – London Underground – Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 – Road transport – Space elevator – VW Type 2 – Wigwag – Zeppelin

War

Attack on Pearl Harbor – Battle of Aljubarrota – Battle of Normandy – Battle of the Bulge – Karl Dönitz – First Battle of the Stronghold – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson – Iraqi resistance – Operation Downfall – Origins of the American Civil War – Peloponnesian War – Siege – Submarine – Tank – Trench warfare – War elephant – World War I