The five nested vital article Levels are meant to give direction to the prioritization of improvements of English Wikipedia articles (e.g. which articles to bring to WP:GA and WP:FA status), to provide a measurement of quality of overall English Wikipedia (e.g. what proportion of the most important articles are at GA and FA status), and to serve as a centralized watchlist of English Wikipedia's most important articles. Unlike the list of articles every Wikipedia should have, they are tailored to the English Wikipedia and are actively maintained by the dedicated WikiProject Vital Articles. This page contains the 10 articles of the Level 1 list.

Any addition to or removal from this list should ONLY BE MADE after a discussion on the Level 1 talk page.

Level 1 (10 articles) < Level 2 (100 articles) < Level 3 (1,000 articles) < Level 4 (10,000 articles) < Level 5 (50,000 articles)

This section contains 10 articles out of a quota of 10.

• The arts
• Earth
• Human
• Human history
• Life
• Mathematics
• Philosophy
• Science
• Society
• Technology

• Wikipedia level-1 vital articles

• Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected pages