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Wikipedia:Requested articles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4664111
Source-derived summary

Good and featured content

Good and featured content

Applied arts and sciences

Agriculture

Architecture

Communications

Computer science, computing, and Internet

Design

Education, schools, colleges, and universities

Electronics

Engineering

Fishing, fisheries, and aquaculture

Flags, coat of arms, logos and trademarks

Law, law enforcement and crime

Library science

Technology and tools

Transportation

Arts and entertainment

Design

Fashion

Film, radio and television

Food, drink, and nutrition

Internet and tech culture

Literature, books

Media networks and organizations

Museums

National or ethnic cultures

Performing arts

Print media

Recreation, hobbies, games

Surrealism

Theory

Tourism

Visual arts

Biography

By profession

By nationality

Women in Red (Biographies of women)

Business and economics

Associations

Business

Companies

Econometrics

Economic theory and history

Economic policy

Economic problems

Economics

Economists

Finance

Law firms

Non-profit organizations

People in business

Terminology (business)

Terminology (economics)

Mathematics

Logic

Mathematics

Medicine

Anatomy

Medical associations

Breastfeeding

Medical careers

Dentistry

Diseases

History of medicine

Hospitals

Medical journals

Medical administration

Medical technology

Microbiology

Neurology

Oncology

Ophthalmology

Orthopaedics

Pathology

Notable people in medicine

Pharmacology

Physical positions

Psychiatry

Radiology

Research terms

Sex

Treatment

Veterinary medicine

Music

Albums

Bands, performers and songwriters

Chamber ensembles

Classical composers

Classical compositions

Conductors

Critics, historians, journalists and publications

Festivals, concerts and awards

Genres

Instruments

Music theory

Orchestras

Organizations

Producers, sound engineers, etc.

Record labels

Schools and music education

Songs

Stage musicals

Technical and business terms

Natural sciences

Astronomy and cosmology

Biology

Chemistry, chemicals and labs

Environment and geology

Journals and trade publications

Materials science

Neuroscience

Physical science

Physics

Scientists and people in science

Other

Philosophy

Aesthetics

Epistemology

Ethics

Logic

Metaphysics

Other

Social sciences

Archaeology

Genealogy

Geography, cities, regions and named places

Historic places

History

LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer)

Linguistics

Military and military history

Mythology

Politics and government

Psychology

Religion

Sociology

Urban Studies

Other social sciences topics

Sports

Sports and sportspeople

American football

Association football (soccer)

Women's football (soccer)

Australian rules football

Baseball

Basketball

Chess

Gymnastics

Motor sports

Rugby league

Rugby union

Wikipedia

Templates

WikiProjects

Images needing articles

See Wikipedia:Requested articles/Images

Other categories

By country

Other or unknown topic

See also

WikiProject Requested articles

Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles (most linked to)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles

Many WikiProjects and notice boards have requests for new articles pertaining to a specific topic.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery

Wikipedia:Articles for creation - allows unregistered and new users to create new articles with the assistance of experienced Wikipedians.

Category:Stubs lists very short preliminary articles that have not yet been developed.

Category:All articles to be expanded and Category:Wikipedia pages with to-do lists list more established articles which need expansion, by section or by specific coverage, respectively.

Category:Redirects with possibilities lists many redirects with good potential to become future articles.

Portal:Current events - displays newsworthy topics— even brief entries for those are very helpful. They have the advantage of already having a reference webpage, and would have been verified in most cases by the news media. (see also Wikinews)

Wikipedia:Requested lists

Wikipedia:Requested pictures and Commons:Picture requests

Wikipedia:Requested recordings

Wikipedia:Requested templates

Wikipedia:Translation

User:Emijrp/All Human Knowledge

Historical

Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs

Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than a year

Special:WantedPages

Wikipedia:Drawing board - a noticeboard for discussing new article ideas.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Wikipedia:Requested articles” as wikimedia project page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikipedia, Requested and articles.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 511-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikipedia, Requested and articles providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Wikipedia:Requested articles”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia project page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4664111. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wikipedia:Requested articles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wikipedia:Requested articles primary sources, Wikipedia:Requested articles archive and Wikipedia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia:Requested articles” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.