CZ:Core Articles

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What are core articles?

Core articles are our top priority articles--articles that are most in demand and most important for us to include in an encyclopedia that has any hope of being comprehensive.

Our leading authors and editors believe this initiative is very important. We hope you'll set aside your relatively specialized interests for a while, and join the contest to create reliable introductions to the most basic topics known to humanity.

How does the core articles initiative work?

Essentially, we list our unwritten core articles here on this page, negotiating about which articles really are our highest priority. We then invite people to write articles on those topics, awarding points for any draft that is 250 words or longer. We tally points on CZ:Core Articles/Scores.

Page format

This is one big long page, divided into sections, one for each workgroup. Each section should be written in three columns. However, make sure the columns break after each workgroup. (So each workgroup header is in one column which spans all three.) Total number of articles on page will be about 4,000. So it will be a big page, but that's OK, it's not too big.

Each line of a workgroup's section begins with # so that the entries are numbered. Most important (highest point value) entries should be listed first. Format of a line evolves like this:

The original entry simply says "French painting" is worth 5 points:

# [[French painting]] (5)

Once Jane Doe has written a draft article over 250 words, she may take credit:

# [[French painting]] (5) - [[User:Jane Doe|]]

Someone confirms that Jane has written 250 words, writing "OK":

# [[French painting]] (5) - [[User:Jane Doe|]] - OK

Finished.

Note: anyone may edit any section of this page so that the section is in conformity with these formatting guidelines! Be Bold!

Topic choice

Each workgroup nominates 99 topics (33 per column). Exceptions are Biology, Health Sciences, History, Geography, Business, Media, Games, Hobbies, and Sports, which may nominate 198 topics (66 per column). For some already-existing article lists, for ideas, please see [1] and [2] as well as, in many cases, workgroup homepages. Here are the 1000 most popular Wikipedia articles of September 2007. List articles in only one workgroup. All topics must be either completely unwritten, a micro-stub, or status=4.

Anyone may list articles here, but if workgroup editors wish to work out the list elsewhere, they may.

* Note: top priority articles that are status=4 (unedited from Wikipedia) should be listed, but with an asterisk--which indicates that, to get the points, a person must either completely replace or rewrite the article.

** Also note: "micro-stubs" (articles without pictures, 50 words or less) should also be listed, but with two asterisks.

Attaching points to topics

Each workgroup may award 10 points for the five most important articles in the group, 5 points for the ten next most important, and 2 points for the 14 next most important (down to #33, the bottom of the first column). The rest (in the middle and right columns) are worth a point apiece.

The first and/or most motivated editor attaches points to articles. If after a reasonable period it appears no editor is going to step up, then the most qualified and motivated author issues the points.

Claiming points

None of these articles may come from Wikipedia, if you want it to count. In fact, if you want, you can entirely replace a status = 4 Wikipedia-sourced article with a new CZ article. Please do.

For now, we do not track first draft authors on the talk page or the metadata page of an article, but only on CZ:Core Articles.

Authors may claim points on CZ:Core Articles/Scores only after their article length (and non-Wikipediahood) has been OK'd.

Already-written core articles

In the sections titled "Already-written core articles," please list top priority articles that were already written prior to September 25, 2007. List any articles that are as high or higher priority as any on the list of 99 (or 198). This is to prevent people from listing articles that have already been written, and so that this page is maximally useful to the end-user. Points are not given for articles in this section--well, not yet, anyway.

The "Miscellaneous" category

Articles that we'll definitely want, but which aren't obviously located in any existing workgroup, should be placed in Miscellaneous. There can be up to 300 articles listed here. Make sure there are no duplicates (overlap with workgroup lists). Each of these will be worth 1 point, unless any editor decides otherwise.

The Core Articles

Natural Sciences

Astronomy

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Biology

See list under development here Duck Ant Eagle Neuron Molecular Biology Developmental Biology Reproduction Botany Polymerase chain reaction Microarray Quantitative trait loci Genomics Non-coding RNA

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Biology Life DNA

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Chemistry

Start listing top priority unwritten, microstub, or status = 4 articles here! Acetic acid Acetone Acetylene Acid Alcohol Aldehyde Base Boron Butane Bromine Calcium Carbon Chlorine Chloroform Ethanol Ether Ethylene Fluorine Hydrochloric acid Helium Inorganic chemistry Methane Neon Nitrogen Organic chemistry Potassium Phosphorus Sodium Sodium chloride Sodium hydroxide Sulfur Sulfuric acid

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1. Hydrogen
2. Oxygen

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Earth Sciences

Please note: points are just a preliminary proposal. Please wait for the complete list to be posted. Points and priorities will then be fixed... --Nereo Preto 09:56, 27 September 2007 (CDT) Age of the Earth (2) Atmosphere (5) Climate (10) Dinosaur (2) Earth (10) Earthquake (5) El Niño-Southern Oscillation (10) Flood (2) Geology (5) Holocene (2) Hurricane Ice ages (2) Karst (2) Landslide (5) North Atlantic Oscillation (5) Ocean (5) Oil (geology) (10) Paleontology (2) Plate tectonics (10) Quaternary (2) Thermohaline circulation (5) Volcano (2) Weather

Basalt Cainozoic Calcite Cave Climate model Continent Crust Current Feldspar Fossil Glacier Granite Gulf Stream Ice cap Limestone Lithosphere Mantle (geology) Marble Mesozoic

Mineral Mountain Nucleus (geology) Olivine Paleoclimatology Paleozoic Peridotite Plate (geology) Precambrian Quartz Seismology Soil Thunderstorm Tornado Zircon

Mathematics

Statistics Analysis Probability theory Quantum probability Fourier transform Free probability Stochastic calculus Functional analysis Approximation theory Numerical analysis Harmonic analysis Operator theory Discrete mathematics Graph theory Differential geometry Mathematical physics

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Physics

Electricity Electromagnetism Quantum theory Relativity Mathematical physics

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Social Sciences

Anthropology

Ethnography Ethnology Forensic anthropology Cultural anthropology Primatology Nutritional anthropology Economic anthropology Cultural ecology Ethnomusicology Myth Ritual Symbolism Culture Ethnicity Tools or Tool use Folklore Indigeneity

Robert Broom Raymond Dart Donald Johanson Louis Leakey Richard Leakey Phillip Tobias F. Clark Howell Mary Leakey Franz Boas Napoleon Chagnon Margaret Mead Clifford Geertz Jane Goodall Diane Fossey Herbert Spencer

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Archaeology

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Economics

HIGH PRIORITY International economics (10) Welfare economics (10) Markets (10) Comparative advantage Economy of scale Balance of payments Terms of trade Externalities Elasticity Supply Demand GNP and GDP

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Start listing already-existing core articles here Economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics History of economic thought

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Education

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Geography

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Law

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Linguistics

At the moment these are listed in alphabetical order. If no-one add points and rearranges them, I'll do it. John Stephenson 02:38, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

Alphabet Applied linguistics* Chinese language Clinical linguistics Cognitive linguistics* Comparative linguistics Computational linguistics* Creolistics Dialect* English language Forensic linguistics Fossilization (linguistics) German language Historical linguistics Language attrition* Language evolution Lingua franca* Linguistic prescriptivism* History of linguistics* Linguistic typology* Linguistic universal* Linguistic variation* Markedness Monitor theory* Morphology (linguistics)* Multilingualism* Neurolinguistics Noam Chomsky Optimality Theory Orthography Poverty of the stimulus Phonetics* Psycholinguistics*

Sapir–Whorf hypothesis Semantics (linguistics) Sociolinguistics Structuralism Syntax* Theoretical linguistics* Universal grammar Word Writing system Written language

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Communication Contact language Critical period hypothesis Descriptive linguistics First language acquisition French language Generative linguistics

Grammar Language Language acquisition Linguistics Natural language Noun Phonology

Pragmatics Reading Second language acquisition Sign language Spoken language Syllable Verb

Politics

HIGH PRIORITY ARTICLES Political systems (10) Electoral systems (10) Political parties (10) International organizations (10) History of political thought (10) The United Nations (UN) (5) European Union** (5)

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Psychology

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Sociology

Start listing top priority unwritten, microstub, or status = 4 articles here! Applied sociology Authoritarianism Bureaucracy Conflict Constructivism Criminology Delinquency Deviance Division of labor Ethnography Exchange theory Family

Second column Industrialization Institution, social Mores Negotiated order Social norm Organization Poverty Role theory Risk society Rural society

Third column Social behavior Social capital Social change Social environment Social gerontology Social interaction Social justice Social movement Social order Social policy Social problem Social structure Social welfare Society Sociology, economic Sociology, educational Sociology, family Sociology, historical Sociology, political Sociology, public Sociology of organization Sociology of religion Notable Sociologists Stratification Survey research Urban society Voluntary association Welfare state Work

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Start listing already-existing core articles here Authority Civil society Communication Community Demography Race Rural poverty Social class Social security Sociology

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Humanities

Classics

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History

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Literature

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Philosophy

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Religion

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Arts

Architecture

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Architecture Civil engineering Environmental engineering Taj Mahal Crystal Palace

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See also: CZ:Architecture Workgroup

Music

Start listing top priority Orchestra Opera Concerto String Quartet Symphony Piano Pop Music Rock and roll** Maria Callas Sviatoslav Richter Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Igor Stravinsky** Benjamin Britten Bela Bartok Gyorgy Ligeti Dimitri Shostakovich Sergei Prokofiev Simon and Garfunkel Stevie Wonder Elvis Presley Punk Rock Pietr I. Tchaikovsky Sergei Rachmaninov Edvard Grieg Frederic Chopin Nikolai Paganini Franz Liszt Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Johannes Brahms** Franz Schubert Joseph Haydn Arthur Sullivan

Second column Richard Rodgers Frank Zappa Gospel Country music African-American Spiritual Richard Wagner Johann Strauss Johann Sebastian Strauss [who??] Richard Strauss Waltz Franz Lehar Marching band Arturo Toscanini Arthur Fiedler

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Johann Sebastian Bach Jazz

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Theater

Start listing top priority unwritten, microstub, or status = 4 articles here! Musical Theatre Theatre in the round History of theatre Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta Richard D'Oyly Carte Stella Adler Joseph Papp Sarah Bernhardt Tallulah Bankhead Uta Hagen Jessica Tandy

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Start listing already-existing core articles here William Shakespeare Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Visual Arts

Start listing top priority unwritten, microstub, or status = 4 articles here! Art Painting Sculpture Leonardo da Vinci Vincent van Gogh Michelangelo Pablo Picasso Marcel Duchamp Alfred Hitchcock John Ford Howard Hawks John Huston Charlie Chaplin D.W. Griffith Salvador Dalí Sam Goldwyn Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Hanna-Barbera Clark Gable Mary Pickford Lawrence Olivier How do you spell "Gaughin" and what was his first name? Mel Blanc Jim Henson

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Start listing already-existing core articles here Walt Disney Film Star Wars

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Applied Arts and Sciences

Agriculture

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Business

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Computers

Turing Machine Digital Computer Computer Program Debugging Grid Computing Bandwidth Latency Microprocessor Cache Random Access Memory Hard Disk Algorithms

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Engineering

Electronics Signal processing Control theory Power systems Telecommunication Information theory Kalman filter

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Food Science

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Healing Arts

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Health Sciences

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Journalism

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Library and Information Science

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Media

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Military

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Recreation

Games

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Hobbies

Start listing top priority unwritten, microstub, or status = 4 articles here! Animal fancy Sewing Stamp collecting Singing Bird watching Gardening Collecting Poultry fancy Painting Pottery Football Tennis Agricultural show Needlepoint Embroidery Crochet Acting Dancing Choir

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Start listing already-existing core articles here Knitting Dog dog show garden sports Cat Music Theatre

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Sports

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Miscellaneous

Articles that we'll definitely want, but which aren't obviously located in any of the above workgroups.

Country profiles - in Geography, no?. I'd say yes.

1. Globalisation

• should be politics, sociology, and economics
• must be interdisciplinary to avoid narrow bias

2. Development

• of what? of a country, then economics and geography [development studies are usually in economics]
• must be interdisciplinary to avoid narrow bias; geographers don't usually deal with it

3. Petroleum

• what angle? if substance, then chemistry and geology; can also be economics and politics
• all angles - must be interdisciplinary for a general article

4. Ideology

• sociology, politics and philosophy
• a real toss-up!

5. Poverty

• sociology or economics
• I'd choose sociology if I had to [economic sociology]

6. Death and Dying

• interdisciplinary but probably best belongs in biology; could also be in sociology
• death - religion would seem to lay equal claim as biology; dying - about as interdisciplinary as something can get

7. Social Work

• needs a Social and Public Policy Workgroup [usually located in Social Policy]

8. Women's studies or Gender studies

• mostly sociology, but can encompass many others

9. Dance - and this doesn't belong way down at no. 9 on the list

1. Ballet
2. Modern dance
3. Tap dance
4. Martha Graham
5. Maria Tallchief
6. Alvin Ailey
7. Ballroom Dancing
8. Vernon and Irene Castle
9. Ginger Rodgers
10. Fred Astaire
11. Gene Kelly
12. Gregory Hines
13. Dance Theatre of Harlem
14. Kirov Ballet
15. Rudolf Nureyev
16. Katherine Dunham
17. Folk dance
18. African dance
19. Indian dance
20. History of dance
21. Nicholas Brothers
22. Sammy Davis, Jr.
23. Savion Glover
24. Cyd Charisse
25. Margot Fonteyn
26. Alicia Markarova
27. Anna Pavlova

10. Circus

1. P.T. Barnum - [history]-- what? You're gonna put Barnum in history? What will Richard say?
2. Fair
3. side show

11. Communications (in this sense)

12. Fashion

13. Landscaping [a business and a hobby]

See also

• What's Your Article?
• What's Your Message?