User:Maurreen/Core topics

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By popular demand, more or less ... This is begun December 4, 2004, to be a list of maybe about 100 core subjects, that for example would go in a "release" version of Wikipedia. It 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 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.

List[edit]

A-[edit]

  1. Advertising
  2. Africa
  3. Agriculture
  4. Aircraft
  5. Aviation
  6. Algebra
  7. Animation
  8. Antarctica
  9. Animal or Zoology
  10. Anthropology
  11. Applied science
  12. Arab/Arab world
  13. Archeology
  14. Architecture -- Adequate, 2006 Feb 15
  15. Arithmetic
  16. Art
  17. Arts
  18. Asia
  19. Astronomy
  20. Australia
  21. Automobile
  22. Biology
  23. Biotechnology
  24. Botany
  25. Buddhism
  26. Business
  27. Chemistry
  28. Christianity
  29. Climate
  30. Clothing
  31. Communication
  32. Community
  33. Computer
  34. Computer science
  35. Country
  36. Crafts
  37. Crime
  38. Culture
  39. Dance
  40. Demographics
  41. DNA
  42. Drawing
  43. Earth sciences .
  44. Ecology
  45. Economics
  46. Education
  47. Electronics
  48. English language
  49. Engineering
  50. Entertainment
  51. Environment
  52. Equation
  53. Ethnic groups
  54. Europe
  55. Evolution
  56. Family
  57. Festivals
  58. Fiction
  59. Film
  60. Finance
  61. Food and drink
  62. Game
  63. Gambling
  64. Gender
  65. Geography
  66. Geometry
  67. Government
  68. Health
  69. Heuristics
  70. Hinduism
  71. Historiography
  72. History
  73. Human history
  74. Hobbies
  75. Home
  76. Housing
  77. Human
  78. Humanities
  79. Humour
  80. Industry
  81. Information science
  82. Internet
  83. Islam

J-[edit]

  1. Judaism
  2. Landforms
  3. Language
  4. Law
  5. Leisure
  6. Linguistics
  7. Literature
  8. Logic
  9. Manufacturing
  10. Maps (or cartography)
  11. Mass media
  12. Mathematics
  13. Measurement
  14. Medicine
  15. Mind
  16. Mineral
  17. Movements
  18. Municipality
  19. Museums
  20. Music
  21. Mythology
  22. Nanotechnology
  23. Natural hazard
  24. North America
  25. Nuclear technology
  26. Numbers
  27. Oceania
  28. Optics
  29. Organizations
  30. Outer space
  31. Painting
  32. Park
  33. Parties
  34. Personal finance
  35. Performing arts
  36. Personal life
  37. Pet
  38. Philosophy
  39. Physics
  40. Plant (or botany)
  41. Poetry
  42. Politics
  43. Popular culture
  44. Proof
  45. Protoscience
  46. Publication
  47. Psychology
  48. Radio
  49. Rail transport
  50. Recreation
  51. Reference
  52. Religion
  53. Ritual
  54. Science
  55. Sculpture
  56. Sex
  57. Soccer
  58. Social science
  59. Society
  60. Sociology
  61. Sound or Acoustics
  62. South America
  63. Sport
  64. Statistics
  65. Technology
  66. Telecommunication
  67. Television
  68. Theater
  69. Theorems
  70. Timelines
  71. Tools
  72. Tourism or Travel
  73. Toys
  74. Tradition
  75. Transportation
  76. Trigonometry
  77. Vehicles
  78. Visual arts
  79. Weather
  80. Western civilization
  81. War
  82. Watercraft
  83. Work

Changes from original list[edit]

Most of this section copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Core_topics on Jan. 23, 2006.

  1. Airplane or Flight replaced by the more general & complete article Aircraft. -- OK
  2. Analysis just a very broad dab page, so removed. -- OK
  3. Arts is just a list of links to different arts articles. Deleted. -- OK
  4. Industries is just a redirect to industry, so only the latter remains in the list. -- OK
  5. Drama replaced by theatre as recommended by theatre expert (see discussion page). -- OK
  6. Movement is a dab page, so Social movement picked instead. -- OK
  7. Rail is a dab page, so Rail transport (main article on the topic) used instead. -- OK
  8. Space is a dab page, so Outer space used instead. -- OK
  9. Telecommunications redirects to Telecommunication, so the latter has been used. -- OK
  1. Food and drink redirects to cuisine, so this has been listed. However there is a long article on food and a short one on drink, also. Should these be considered? ???