User:Silence/Core


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 * /Requests for pictures and images
 * /Supplement

The Core Topics subproject of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team is intended to work toward improvement of the most important articles (realizing that "important" is subjective). For the time being, our work is limited to about 160 articles, which are listed with comments in the table below. A supplementary list, similar in size, has been created to cover some other important subjects.

See also Concise.

How you can help
If you're interested in helping, good places to start are:
 * Our collaboration of the fortnight
 * Core topics at Article Improvement Drive
 * Re-assess articles in the table (see "Comments" for date if recently done)
 * Work on any article listed in the table and update its status if needed. Especially, use the article status summary as a guide. The summary lists the best and worst of the core topics. (The "Start Class" topics are more than stubs but often need serious work).
 * Another option is helping the Wikiprojects. That group communicates with Wikiprojects and related groups. For example, topical Wikiprojects could be encouraged to work on core topic articles, etc.

Mini-tree of articles most in need of attention

 * Culture: Popular culture
 * Arts: Fiction
 * Language and Communication: Communication | Mass media


 * Science and Mathematics: Health | Measurement | Universe ("Universe" needs initial evaluation)
 * Earth Sciences: Climate | Earth ("Earth" needs initial evaluation) | Landform
 * Engineering and Technology: Electronics | Telecommunication


 * Society and Everyday Life: Community | Country | Personal life
 * Business: Business
 * Leisure: Humour | Toy

General

 * Featured Articles: Antarctica | Big Bang | Race | Sun


 * A-Class: Advertising | Alphabet | Archaeology | Bacteria | Cell (biology) | Computer | Drawing | Earth | Economics | Film | Gender | Mathematics | Moon | Natural disaster | Sociology | Television | Virus | Water


 * Good Articles: (only non-A-Class GAs are listed here) Agriculture | Biology | Crime | History of the world | Physics | Planet | Sound | Statistics


 * B-Blass: (Most of the Core Topics fall into this "middle ground" category.)


 * Start Class: Anatomy | Chemical element | Climate | Communication | Community | Continent | Country | Electronics | Fiction | Food | Fuel | Health | Humour | Landform | Mass media | Matter | Measurement | Metal | Motion (physics) | Nature | Organism | Personal life | Sex | Society | Technology | Tool | Transport | Visual arts | Year

Background
By popular demand, more or less... This is begun December 4, 2004, to be a list of maybe about 100 core subjects that would go in a "release" version of Wikipedia. Please help us get all of these up to distribution quality!

Articles have been classified in the table below according to their top-level category, and a basic assessment carried out, with specific comments added in the final column. Please take a look at the articles and make any adjustments necessary (the articles are always changing!), and add comments accordingly. Links to relevant portals and collaborations are included, since we may want to request help from subject experts.

The list is small to be tightly focused. Articles on individual countries are core topics, but beyond the scope of this list because there are so many and their value is clear. At least as a rule of thumb, biographies are beyond the scope of this list, because there are multitudes and their value when considered individually is too subjective. Other contenders for core articles include articles on the English language, timelines, maps and any reference material.

Articles in Core topics that may need images, photos or diagrams, can be listed at Requests for pictures and images.

This is a work in progress. And the list started out closer to 150 than 100, but I hope it will at least not go past 200.

Similar lists

 * Top 45
 * List of articles all languages should have
 * simple:Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have
 * Vital articles (similar to the previous two, but run more as a project; has images noting GAs and FAs, and bold for ones with cleanup tags)
 * List of basic topic lists
 * The original version was Larry Sanger's idea of core topics, worth a look!
 * Concise (longest of these lists)

Members

 * Martin Walker
 * Ahmed Al-Hilali
 * Tastemyhouse
 * Deliri
 * Maurreen
 * Gflores
 * Randy Johnston
 * E Pluribus Anthony
 * Jaranda
 * Silence
 * NCurse

Proposed initial quality standards
Copied to talk page. May be moot, if Release Version Qualifying takes off. Maurreen 04:13, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Removed entries

 * ''See also: /Supplement


 * 1) Ancient history
 * 2) Airplane (replaced by the more general & complete article aircraft)
 * 3) Analysis (just a very broad dab page)
 * 4) Animation
 * 5) Arithmetic
 * 6) Arts (just a list of links to different arts articles)
 * 7) Australia (high-quality article, but it's biased to have it as the only individual country included on the Core Topics list; geographic region replaced by Oceania)
 * 8) Biotechnology (important but specialized field)
 * 9) Boat (stubby article, replaced with Ship)
 * 10) Botany (decently significant subfield of biology, but no particular reason to include it while ignoring zoology, mycology, etc.)
 * 11) Buddhism (good article, but no room to include specific religions, plus selection possibly biased)
 * 12) Christianity (good article, but no room to include specific religions, plus selection possibly biased)
 * 13) Computer science (important but specialized field; poor article)
 * 14) Craft (permanent stub; essentially a dab page)
 * 15) Demographics (replaced by race)
 * 16) Drama (replaced by theatre as recommended by theatre expert; see discussion page)
 * 17) Earth science (only important for categorization purposes; as an article, trivial and stubby/listy)
 * 18) Employment
 * 19) English language (too specialized, selection reflects bias)
 * 20) Entertainment
 * 21) Environment (dab page)
 * 22) Equation
 * 23) Ethnic group
 * 24) Festival
 * 25) Finance
 * 26) Flight (replaced by the more general & complete article aircraft)
 * 27) Food and drink (redirects to food&mdash;formerly to cuisine)&mdash;so removed)
 * 28) Football (soccer)
 * 29) Gambling
 * 30) Hinduism (good article, but no room to include specific religions, plus selection possibly biased)
 * 31) History of Earth (important points should be covered in the Earth article, which is already listed)
 * 32) Historiography (replaced with History of Earth)
 * 33) Hobby (permanently stubby)
 * 34) Home (House is sufficient)
 * 35) Humanities (biased, selective and Eurocentric; no point including if we're excluding articles like academia and liberal arts)


 * 1) Industry
 * 2) Islam (good article, but no room to include specific religions, plus selection possibly biased)
 * 3) Judaism (good article, but no room to include specific religions, plus selection possibly biased)
 * 4) Leisure (not significant enough)
 * 5) Manufacturing
 * 6) Map
 * 7) Mathematical proof
 * 8) Middle Ages (overly specific and possibly Eurocentric)
 * 9) Modern Times (history) (overly specific and arbitrary, deals more with historiologic typology than actually significant events)
 * 10) Movement (dab page, so Social movement picked instead)
 * 11) Municipality (basically a dab page, replaced by City, a well-developed article)
 * 12) Museum
 * 13) Nanotechnology (important but specialized field)
 * 14) Nuclear technology (replaced by more expansive article nuclear power)
 * 15) Oceanography (replaced by ocean)
 * 16) Optics (important but specialized field; replaced by more basic light, color, etc.)
 * 17) Organization
 * 18) Outer space (replaced by more expansive Earth and Universe)
 * 19) Painting
 * 20) Park
 * 21) Party
 * 22) Performing arts
 * 23) Personal finance (replaced with money)
 * 24) Pet
 * 25) Physical science (only important for categorization purposes; as an article, trivial and stubby/listy)
 * 26) Proof theory (changed to Mathematical proof: proof theory is an advanced and specalised topic, whereas mathematical proof is where the concept of a mathematical proof should treated)
 * 27) Publishing
 * 28) Rail (dab page, so Rail transport, main article on the topic, used instead)
 * 29) Recreation
 * 30) Reference
 * 31) Social movement
 * 32) Space (dab page, so Outer space used)
 * 33) Theorem
 * 34) Tourism
 * 35) Trigonometry
 * 36) Western world (biased, outmoded, Eurocentric: can't be included without Eastern world)