Wikipedia:Featured articles

We think the following Wikipedia pages are pretty good. This is a selected list -- since there are over a hundred thousand pages on Wikipedia, we couldn't possibly keep track of all of the brilliant prose here! The notion of "brilliant prose", however, does not mean that these articles are "complete" in any sense -- each and every article can always be improved, so be bold in updating pages. There is also a list of Brilliant pictures.

If you wish to add a new page to this list, please nominate it first on Wikipedia:Brilliant prose candidates (see that page for further instructions).

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This page is being reorganized. Some of these articles were added before the start of the nomination system. Please vote for KEEPING or REMOVAL in the following pages:

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Archaeology

Oxyrhynchus

Applied Arts and Sciences

Ackermann function -- Algorithm -- API -- ASCII -- Bible code -- Code -- Damascus steel -- Echelon -- Electronic amplifier -- Fountain pen -- Hubble Space Telescope -- Illegal prime -- Information theory -- Knot -- Markup language -- Nuclear weapon -- Pattern welding -- Phonograph cylinder -- Quantum computer -- RISC -- Road transport -- Search engine -- Secure computing -- Spacecraft propulsion -- Spamming -- Titanium -- Typewriter -- Telephone switch -- World Wide Web -- Zuiderzee Works

Biography

Achilles -- Mark Antony -- Mortimer Adler -- Alexander the Great -- Ibn Battuta -- Humphrey Bogart -- L. Paul Bremer -- Julius Caesar -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Paul Erdös -- Galileo Galilei -- Ernest Hemingway -- Jim Henson -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Homer -- Garry Kasparov -- Stephen King -- Rudyard Kipling -- Bruno Kreisky -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck -- Nella Larsen -- H._P._Lovecraft -- John Major -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Joshua A. Norton -- Perseus -- Rhazes -- Rembrandt van Rijn -- Martha Stewart -- Gough Whitlam -- Eugene Wigner

Biology

Sperm Whale -- Race -- Action potential -- Synapse

Culture & Social Organizations

Analogue disc record -- Aztalan State Park -- Baroque -- Bathing machine -- Fancy cancels -- Freemasonry -- Lollapalooza -- Korean name -- Montparnasse -- Prostitution -- Same-sex marriage -- Social history of the piano -- Villain

Economics

Economics -- History of the English penny -- Euro -- London Congestion Charge -- Market form (and related pages)

Film, TV, radio, Internet and Other Media

Film theory -- Batman -- Have I Got News For You -- Homer Simpson -- Not the Nine O'Clock News -- Nude celebrities on the Internet -- Paramount Pictures -- The Simpsons episodes, for example There's No Disgrace Like Home -- Star Trek -- Superman -- The Today programme -- Three Colors: Blue -- Western movie

Food & Drink

Tea

Games

Blackjack -- Bridge -- Chess -- Chess strategy and tactics -- Go (board game) -- Prisoner's dilemma -- Poker -- Pub quiz -- Sample chess game -- Rock, Paper, Scissors

Geography

Provinces of Thailand, Newark, New Jersey

History

Adoption in Rome -- Attack on Pearl Harbor -- Battle of Aljubarrota -- Battle of Jutland -- Behistun Inscription -- Byzantine Empire -- East Germany -- Falklands War -- First Battle of the Stronghold -- Franks -- History of China -- History of Egypt -- History of England -- History of Germany -- History of the Levant -- History of Scotland -- History of the Netherlands -- Irish Houses of Parliament -- Krakow -- MKULTRA -- Nagasaki -- Operation Market Garden -- Peloponnesian War -- September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack -- Sino-Soviet split -- Treblinka extermination camp -- White Rose -- World War I

Language

American English -- British English -- Chinese language -- Chinese written language -- Hebrew language -- Japanese language -- Leet -- Mandarin (linguistics) -- Neologism -- Political correctness -- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis -- Split infinitive -- Taiwanese language -- Thou

Law

Copyright -- Crushing by elephant -- Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- Negligence -- Statute of limitations -- Terrorism

Literature

Alliterative verse -- Crime fiction -- Gulliver's Travels -- Irish poetry -- Irish theatre

Medicine & health

Anorexia nervosa -- Tuberculosis -- Menstrual cycle -- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Military

Nuclear warfare -- Sniper -- Tank -- Tank history -- V1 Flying Bomb

Music

Miles Davis -- Bob Dylan -- Concept album -- Disco -- Freestyle music -- Heavy metal music -- Hip hop -- Charles Ives -- Jazz -- Madonna -- Musical instrument -- Roy Orbison -- Gram Parsons -- Pickup -- Punk rock -- Saxophone -- Sex Pistols -- Simon and Garfunkel -- Talking Heads

Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Science

Alchemy -- Astronomy -- Brolga -- Carbon -- Cladistics -- Comet -- Computational complexity theory (and related pages) -- Diamond -- DNA -- Earth -- Electron hole -- Free will -- Game theory -- Gene -- Geologic ages (and related pages) -- Glass -- Global warming -- Helium -- Law of Demeter -- Io (moon) -- LSD -- Ockham's Razor -- Ordinal -- Paleontology -- Paradox (and related pages) -- Periodic table -- Platypus -- Protista (and related pages) -- Pythagorean theorem -- Quantum mechanics -- Rainbow -- Statistics (and related pages) -- Trigonometric function -- Symposium -- Vacuous truth

Politics

Libertarian socialism -- Libertarianism -- President of the United States -- Prime Minister of Australia -- Propaganda -- Zionism

Psychology

Milgram experiment -- Psychosis -- Schizophrenia

Reference

Anno Domini -- Hebrew calendar -- Peer review

Religion and beliefs

Revised Standard Version -- Book of Mormon -- Christianity -- End times -- Greek mythology (and related pages) -- Idolatry -- Norse mythology (category) -- Original sin -- Protestantism -- Scientology -- Shakers -- Sons of Noah

Sport

Baseball -- Bodyline (cricket) -- Bulldogging -- Chariot racing -- Montreal Canadiens -- Summer Olympic Games

Technology

--Horseshoe

Other

Freedom fries -- Horse breaking -- Sheepshead -- Vampire

Wikipedia

Wikipedia FAQ -- WikiProject U.S. States

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See also

• Brilliant pictures
• The dark side of Wikipedia