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This list is almost useless

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After trying to merge this list with Wikipedia:Vital articles, I found out that this list has very little use. While including highly insignificant chemical elements, it has only five articles about fundamental chemical concepts. While including minor geographic features like Lake Titicaca and disputed or sub-national territories of relatively little importance (Falkland Islands, Macau, United States Virgin Islands) it does not mention central geographic concepts like mountain. The biography section is too long, and biased towards English-speaking countries. Mathematics and technology are far too under-represented. I would consider merging this list into Wikipedia:Vital articles/Expanded instead. /Yvwv (talk) 15:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - duplicative definitely. Let's merge these lists. Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:17, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support merge with lvl-4 but prefer redirecting to lvl-3. Nergaal (talk) 00:57, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Two out of seven athletes are american baseball players. --Ettrig (talk) 12:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move?

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved to Wikipedia:1,000 core topics by Kotniski; most people seemed to be in favor of this over the original proposal (including myself, the nominator). –CWenger (^@) 16:34, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

"Athletes and related" section

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This is a very strange selection. Seven names. Six Americans (OK, one was naturalised). But is that WP:WORLDVIEW? Not just one, but two baseball players for a sport with little global appeal. If you were going to include two names from a single sport, go for a sport with international reach. It's also most peculiar that you include Bruce Lee in this section. His notability comes mostly from his films, not his athletic prowess. Putting Lee there is like moving Elvis Presley from where he currently is in the list with musicians, to be under "Performing arts" because of his films.

All in all, that's quite disappointing. --Dweller (talk) 12:14, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Marked as historical

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Owing to the consensus to merge this with Vital Articles (level 3) I've marked this as historical. VA is more broadly supported, better composed, and is actually used in processes (such as the WikiCup), while this has become depreciated and unmaintained. Sven Manguard Wha? 04:57, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Differences between 1000 vital and 1000 core articles

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What is the difference between 1,000 vital articles and this 1,000 core articles? Is there any difference? I was looking through both of the articles, and I'm confused. I was thinking of using 1000 vital but I saw 1000 core. Does one of these have articles that the other one doesn't? I think this should be clarified on the header of both of these articles specifying that this is different from the core/vital based on X. 75.70.142.23 (talk) 08:39, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]