User:SeanMack/sandbox/Good2
Wikipedia contains many good articles. However, only about 0.1% of our articles are featured articles, which have been thoroughly reviewed and designated as the very best of Wikipedia. Many articles contain excellent content but are unlikely in their current state to become featured; they may be too short, or on too broad a topic, or on too specific a topic, or on a topic about which not much is known. We should endeavour to identify good content, which may have the potential to become featured after some development. 861 articles are currently listed as meeting the good article criteria (with several having been promoted to FA status and presented with this tag {{GAF}}), but there are plenty more out there waiting to be listed. It is up to the members of the Wikipedia community to search, compose, and flag the numerous amount of articles that potentially meet the GA criteria. |
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A good article shares many characteristics with featured articles, and like featured content it must:
Good articles may not be as thorough and detailed as our featured articles, but should not omit any major facets of the topic. For more detail see Wikipedia:What is a good article .
The process by which articles are designated as 'good' is much simpler and quicker than that by which articles become featured. Simply add any articles that match the If an article has gone from good status to featured article status please use {{GAF}}. Don't forget to remove articles from the list if they get promoted to featured status.
If you see an article listed here that you think is not good, }} and a note on its talk page to indicate why you think it is not good. Please keep in mind, however, that "be bold" does not mean "be merciless": a good article is not the same as a featured one and the criteria are somewhat less stringent. A notice on the talk page with suggestions about improvements without delisting is preferable, unless you think that the article is really bad.If you see an article removed that you think does in fact meet the criteria, add it to /Disputes, to get wider input and a consensus on whether it should be listed or not. See Wikipedia:Stable versions for a related proposal.
Anyone can take part in keeping this page working, by reviewing new nominations or assessing current listing to ensure they meet the criteria. The members of list updater , also exist to assist in completing this task.
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Archaeology
Archaeology ♦ Egyptian pyramids ♦ Mummy — (3 articles)
Architecture
Hawaiian architecture ♦ Kitchen ♦ Moana Hotel ♦ Presidio of Santa Barbara ♦ Sanssouci ♦
Art
Biographies of artists
Kandinsky, Wassily Mondrian, Piet ♦ Moore, Alan ♦ — (4 articles)
Animals and plants (living and extinct)
Biographies of biologists
Darwin, Charles ♦ Gage, Phineas ♦ Dawkins, Richard ♦ Gould, Stephen Jay — (4 articles)
Biology
Arp2/3 complex ♦ Bacteria ♦ Bioinformatics ♦ Biology ♦ Brain ♦ Cell (biology) ♦ DNA ♦ Eukaryote ♦ Extraterrestrial life ♦ Insulin ♦ Lipid ♦ Mammal classification Photosynthetic reaction centre ♦ Polymerase chain reaction ♦ Prion ♦ Protein ♦ Virus — (17 articles)
Evolution and reproduction
Alternation of generations ♦ Fitness landscape ♦ Mitochondrial Eve ♦ Punctuated equilibrium ♦
Health and medicine
Biographies of chemists and materials scientists
Lavoisier, Antoine — (1 article)
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 ♦
Chemistry
Computational chemistry ♦ History of chemistry ♦ Quantum chemistry — (3 articles)
Materials science
Corrosion ♦ Damascus steel ♦ Optical fiber ♦ Steel — (4 articles)
Cryptography
Hardware and infrastructure
Computer ♦ Grid computing ♦ Model M keyboard ♦ X Window System protocols and architecture — (4 articles)
Programming
BASIC ♦ C++ ♦ Imperative programming ♦ Perl — (4 articles)
Software
Internet Explorer ♦ Napster ♦ Opera (web browser) ♦ — (3 articles)
Websites and the Internet
Facebook ♦ — (1 articles)
Cultural and social issues
Gender ♦ Sociology ♦ All your base are belong to us — (3 articles)
Cultural movements and subcultures
Bills ♦ Dada ♦ Gay bathhouse — (3 articles)
Festivities
Chinese New Year ♦ Halloween ♦ Santa Claus — (3 articles)
Peoples
Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ♦ Crimean Karaites ♦ Defaka ♦ Irish people ♦
Biographies of businesspeople
Businesses
Argyle diamond mine ♦ AT&T ♦ Fawcett Publications ♦ Google ♦
Economics
Education
Academy ♦ Education in the United States ♦ Encyclopædia Britannica ♦ Policy debate — (4 articles)
Educational institutions
Ateneo de Manila University ♦ Dartmouth College ♦ Hopkins School ♦ Illinois Institute of Technology ♦ North Carolina State University ♦ Ohio Wesleyan University ♦
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Edison, Thomas — (1 article)
Engineering and technology
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Battuta, Ibn — (1 article)
Countries
Bolivia ♦ Brazil ♦ Canada ♦ Ethiopia ♦ France ♦ Iran ♦ Japan ♦ Northern Ireland ♦ Pakistan ♦ Soviet Union &diams United States — (11 articles)
Geography
Places
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Parks and conservation areas
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ♦ Mammoth Cave National Park — (2 articles)
Geology and geophysics
Mineralogy
Crystallographic defects in diamond ♦ Diamond cut ♦ Diamond simulant ♦ Material properties of diamond ♦ Pyrite — (5 articles)
Biographies of historical figures
Abdi-Heba ♦ Akhenaten ♦ al-Ghamdi, Saeed ♦ al-Hazmi, Salem ♦ al-Mihdhar, Khalid ♦
History
1964 New York World's Fair ♦ 1973 oil crisis ♦ 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal ♦
History of cities, states, and countries
History of Louisville, Kentucky ♦ History of South Africa ♦ History of South Carolina ♦
History of technology
History of the Internet ♦ Video game crash of 1983 ♦ Industrial Revolution — (3 articles)
Historical peoples
Language and linguistics
Behistun Inscription ♦ Bench language ♦
Crime, criminals and punishment
Crime ♦
Law
Australian constitutional law ♦
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ♦
Biographies of writers and critics
Cummings, E. E. ♦ Dickinson, Emily ♦ Farrar, Janet ♦ Goldfaden, Abraham ♦ Hemingway,Ernest ♦
Literature
Biographies of mathematicians
Turing, Alan — (1 article)
Mathematics
Gödel's incompleteness theorems ♦ Mathematical analysis ♦ Mathematics ♦ Ordinal number ♦ Philosophy of mathematics ♦ Pythagorean theorem ♦ Statistics — (7 articles)
Actors and models
Jacob Pavlovitch Adler, Adler, Jacob Pavlovitch ♦ Page, Bettie ♦ Clark, Robert ♦ Jenner, Edward ♦ Jovovich, Milla Keaton, Diane ♦ Robinson, Andrew — (7 articles)
Fictional characters
Films
Metropolis ♦ Ran ♦ Star Wars ♦ The Lion King — (4 articles)
Media
Television shows
Avatar: The Last Airbender ♦ Lost ♦ Sesame Street ♦ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ♦ Stargate SG-1 ♦
By nation, people, region or country
Genres, styles and music eras
Instruments
Bassoon ♦ Cello ♦ Clarinet ♦ Recorder ♦ String instrument ♦ Suikinkutsu ♦ Synthesizer — (7 articles)
Music
Atonality ♦ Glastonbury Festival ♦ Snake charming — (3 articles)
Performers and composers
Ashlee Simpson ♦ Billie Holiday ♦ Black Flag (band) ♦ Bob Marley ♦ Brand New ♦ Britney Spears ♦ Bruce Springsteen ♦ Cat Stevens ♦ Christina Aguilera ♦
Recordings and compositions
Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album) ♦ Beatles for Sale ♦ "
Biographies of philosphers
Aristotle ♦ Fodor, Jerry ♦ Hume, David ♦ Kierkegaard, Søren ♦ Russell, Bertrand ♦ Popper, Karl — (6 articles)
Philosophical thought and movements
Analytical Marxism ♦ Anomalous monism ♦
Astronomy
Atmospheric physics and meteorology
1997 Pacific hurricane season ♦ 2004 Atlantic hurricane season ♦ 2005 Atlantic hurricane season ♦ Climate change ♦
Physics
Casimir effect ♦ Cold fusion ♦ Isospin ♦ Physics ♦ Quark ♦ Schrödinger equation ♦ Sound ♦ Special relativity ♦ Thermodynamics ♦ Ultraviolet — (10 articles)
Biographies of politically significant people
Brown, Gordon ♦ Gore, Al ♦ Hackett, Paul ♦ [Harlan II, John Marshall] ♦ Marshall, John ♦ Nader, Ralph
Politics and government
Psychology
Borderline personality disorder ·
Divinities
Apollo ♦ Ganesha ♦ God ♦ Satan — (3 articles)
Myths
Atlantis ♦ King Arthur — (2 articles)
Places of worship
Mosque ♦ St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church — (2 articles)
Religion and science
Religious disputes
Chinese Rites controversy — (1 articles)
Religious figures and leaders
Biblical Magi ♦ Jesus ♦ Muhammad ♦ Pope John Paul II ♦
Religious movements, traditions and organizations
Religous texts
Heraldry
Coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI — (1 articles)
Royalty and nobility
Prince George, Duke of Kent ♦ Hirohito ♦ Władysław IV Vasa — (3 articles)
Biographies of people known in connection with sport and games
Beckham, David ♦ Brady, Tom ♦ Fischer, Bobby ♦ Mosley, Max — (4 articles)
Computer and video games
Games
Dice ♦ Junta (game) ♦ Poker — (3 articles)
Sport
Sports teams
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 ♦
Maritime transport
Aircraft carrier ♦ Gowanus Canal ♦ History of the Panama Canal — (3 articles)
Railroad transport
Algoma Central Railway ♦ Amtrak ♦ Atlantic Coast Line Railroad ♦ Autorack ♦ Bay Area Rapid Transit ♦
Railway bridges and train stations
Road transport
Chevrolet Corvette ♦ Lexus LS ♦ Filling station ♦ Forth Road Bridge ♦ Harley-Davidson ♦
Armies and military units
Biographies of military people
Butler, Smedley ♦ John J. Pershing,Pershing, John J. ♦ Rommel, Erwin — (3 articles)
Conflicts, battles and military exercises
Able Archer 83 ♦ Albigensian Crusade ♦ Battle of France ♦ American Revolutionary War ♦ Battle of Sitka ♦ Battle of Stalingrad ♦ Battle of Tours ♦ Battle of Vaslui ♦
Legal issues and treaties
Japanese war crimes ♦ Prisoner of war ♦ NATO ♦ Tripoli Agreement — (4 articles)
Weapons and military equipment
Effects of nuclear explosions ♦ History of nuclear weapons ♦