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Biography article statistics

This list is generated automatically on alternate nights.
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Biography articles		Importance
		Top	None	Total
Quality
	FA	22	651	673
	FL		86	86
	A		27	27
	GA	21	1660	1681
	B	65	15655	15720
	C	92	8130	8222
	Start		155749	155749
	Stub		470760	470760
	List		609	609
	Assessed	200	653327	653527
	Unassessed		104742	104742
	Total	200	758069	758269

CORE BIOGRAPHIES

This page has been developed by the Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography to be a list of the most important biographies in WP as a way to have a work list of articles to improve. Any such list will be subjective and unlikely to find universal agreement.

Biography (core) articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	22	22
	GA	21	21
	B	65	65
	C	92	92
	Assessed	200	200
	Total	200	200

Currently, this is being used as a worklist for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. The live worklist can be found at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biographies. It is essentially a work list for anyone who chooses to use it. The main idea is to pick an article towards the bottom of the list and bring it to as close to featured status as possible. Criteria for inclusion is below and must meet the definition for Top.

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[edit] See also

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[edit] Criteria

For placement on this list, consider the following criteria.

Top/Core - Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.

For an understanding of how "Top" relates to potential lower-importance categories, keep this in mind, as it might help decide if a biography is really "Top" or "High," etc.:

High - Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin.

Mid - Important in their discipline

Low - A contributor to their discipline and is included in Wikipedia to expand depth of knowledge of other articles.

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Contact with WP Biography

Article	Import	Date	Assess	Ver	Comments
Archimedes [1]		October 24, 2007	1  FA
Augustus [2]		August 31, 2007	1  FA
Blaise Pascal [3]		August 21, 2006	1  FA
Charles Darwin [4]		December 21, 2006	1  FA
Edgar Allan Poe [5]		January 21, 2008	1  FA
Elizabeth I of England [6]		August 20, 2006	1  FA	0.5
Franklin D. Roosevelt [7]		August 20, 2006	1  FA
Hippocrates [8]		January 11, 2007	1  FA
Jackie Robinson [9]		October 12, 2009	1  FA	0.5
James Joyce [10]		August 20, 2006	1  FA
Joan of Arc [11]		August 20, 2006	1  FA
Johannes Kepler [12]		March 22, 2007	1  FA
John Calvin [13]		February 14, 2009	1  FA
Leonhard Euler [14]		October 8, 2006	1  FA
Mary Wollstonecraft [15]		January 21, 2007	1  FA
Max Weber [16]		August 26, 2006	1  FA
Michael Jordan [17]		March 22, 2007	1  FA	0.5
Suleiman the Magnificent [18]		January 22, 2008	1  FA
Søren Kierkegaard [19]		August 20, 2006	1  FA
The Beatles [20]		November 8, 2009	1  FA
William Butler Yeats [21]		September 15, 2007	1  FA	0.5
William Shakespeare [22]		August 16, 2007	1  FA
Albert Einstein [23]		April 27, 2009	3  GA
Auguste Rodin [24]		December 1, 2009	3  GA
Che Guevara [25]		August 31, 2009	3  GA
Constantine I [26]		September 19, 2008	3  GA
Galileo Galilei [27]		March 6, 2008	3  GA
Hammurabi [28]		February 18, 2007	3  GA
John Maynard Keynes [29]		August 21, 2009	3  GA
Laozi [30]		January 21, 2008	3  GA
Leonardo da Vinci [31]		March 24, 2007	3  GA
Marco Polo [32]		July 22, 2009	3  GA
Mother Teresa [33]		June 1, 2007	3  GA
Muhammad [34]		July 14, 2008	3  GA
Napoleon I of France [35]		July 17, 2008	3  GA
Nelson Mandela [36]		September 1, 2008	3  GA
Rembrandt [37]		October 6, 2007	3  GA
Sun Tzu [38]		October 2, 2008	3  GA
Vincent van Gogh [39]		May 30, 2007	3  GA
W. H. Auden [40]		November 8, 2007	3  GA
Walt Whitman [41]		February 15, 2008	3  GA
Winston Churchill [42]		January 2, 2008	3  GA
Wright brothers [43]		February 17, 2007	3  GA
Abraham Lincoln [44]		March 22, 2007	4 B
Adam Smith [45]		November 4, 2006	4 B
Adolf Hitler [46]		October 2, 2008	4 B
Aeschylus [47]		June 7, 2009	4 B
Akbar the Great [48]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Alexander Graham Bell [49]		August 26, 2006	4 B	0.5
Alexander the Great [50]		September 12, 2006	4 B
Alfred Hitchcock [51]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Aristotle [52]		March 22, 2007	4 B
Benito Mussolini [53]		February 16, 2007	4 B
Bruce Lee [54]		October 3, 2006	4 B	0.5
Carl Linnaeus [55]		August 30, 2006	4 B
Charles Babbage [56]		September 25, 2006	4 B	0.5
Christopher Columbus [57]		September 13, 2006	4 B
Cyrus the Great [58]		August 21, 2009	4 B
Edmund Burke [59]		October 24, 2007	4 B	0.5
Elvis Presley [60]		November 30, 2007	4 B
Francis of Assisi [61]		October 2, 2006	4 B
Franz Kafka [62]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Frederick Douglass [63]		December 23, 2009	4 B
Frederick II of Prussia [64]		September 11, 2006	4 B	0.5
Friedrich Nietzsche [65]		October 23, 2006	4 B
Gautama Buddha [66]		August 20, 2006	4 B
George Washington [67]		June 22, 2009	4 B
Guglielmo Marconi [68]		October 16, 2006	4 B
Henry David Thoreau [69]		October 20, 2006	4 B	0.5
Henry Ford [70]		March 2, 2007	4 B
Heraclius [71]		October 22, 2009	4 B
Immanuel Kant [72]		January 21, 2008	4 B
Isaac Newton [73]		March 23, 2009	4 B
J. Robert Oppenheimer [74]		April 6, 2007	4 B
James Clerk Maxwell [75]		September 11, 2006	4 B	0.5
Jane Austen [76]		August 24, 2006	4 B
Jesus [77]		December 1, 2009	4 B
John Milton [78]		October 4, 2006	4 B	0.5
Joseph Stalin [79]		November 17, 2006	4 B
Julius Caesar [80]		June 10, 2007	4 B
Linus Pauling [81]		April 24, 2007	4 B
Ludwig van Beethoven [82]		August 23, 2006	4 B
Marie Curie [83]		October 8, 2006	4 B
Mark Twain [84]		January 25, 2007	4 B
Martin Luther [85]		May 16, 2007	4 B
Martin Luther King, Jr. [86]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Michael Faraday [87]		October 10, 2006	4 B
Mikhail Gorbachev [88]		October 14, 2006	4 B
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [89]		July 14, 2009	4 B
Muhammad Ali [90]		September 9, 2006	4 B
Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī [91]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Nikola Tesla [92]		September 9, 2008	4 B
Paul of Tarsus [93]		August 24, 2006	4 B
Pelé [94]		May 29, 2008	4 B	0.5
Plato [95]		November 21, 2007	4 B
Pythagoras [96]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Raphael [97]		December 9, 2007	4 B
Saladin [98]		August 20, 2006	4 B
Sigmund Freud [99]		August 23, 2006	4 B
Stephen Hawking [100]		October 10, 2006	4 B	0.5
T. S. Eliot [101]		August 21, 2006	4 B	0.5
Thomas Aquinas [102]		August 12, 2009	4 B
Thomas Edison [103]		September 1, 2008	4 B
Thomas Robert Malthus [104]		October 16, 2006	4 B	0.5
Thucydides [105]		August 26, 2009	4 B	0.5
Vladimir Lenin [106]		November 17, 2006	4 B
Walt Disney [107]		October 16, 2006	4 B
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [108]		September 13, 2006	4 B
Akira Kurosawa [109]		July 28, 2008	C	0.5
Andy Warhol [110]		September 24, 2009	C
Antoine Lavoisier [111]		September 28, 2009	C
Attila the Hun [112]		July 14, 2008	C
Augustine of Hippo [113]		December 20, 2008	C
Babe Ruth [114]		September 24, 2009	C
Benjamin Franklin [115]		September 24, 2009	C	0.5
Brothers Grimm [116]		September 24, 2009	C
Cai Lun [117]		July 22, 2009	C	0.5
Carl Friedrich Gauss [118]		July 22, 2009	C
Catherine II of Russia [119]		September 4, 2008	C
Charlemagne [120]		September 24, 2009	C
Charles Dickens [121]		July 28, 2009	C
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor [122]		September 28, 2009	C	0.5
Charlie Chaplin [123]		September 28, 2009	C
Claude Monet [124]		September 28, 2009	C
Cleopatra VII [125]		April 27, 2009	C
Columba [126]		September 4, 2008	C
Confucius [127]		September 28, 2009	C
Dante Alighieri [128]		September 4, 2008	C
David Hume [129]		June 7, 2009	C
Edward Gibbon [130]		September 28, 2009	C
Emperor Taizong of Tang [131]		September 4, 2008	C
Ernest Hemingway [132]		September 15, 2008	C	0.5
Ernest Rutherford [133]		September 4, 2008	C
Euclid [134]		September 4, 2008	C
Ezra Pound [135]		September 24, 2009	C	0.5
Ferdinand Magellan [136]		September 4, 2008	C
Francis Bacon [137]		December 1, 2009	C
Frank Lloyd Wright [138]		October 17, 2009	C	0.5
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor [139]		September 4, 2008	C
Fyodor Dostoyevsky [140]		July 28, 2009	C
Genghis Khan [141]		August 4, 2009	C
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron [142]		December 1, 2009	C
Giotto di Bondone [143]		February 14, 2009	C
Giuseppe Verdi [144]		September 4, 2008	C
Gottfried Leibniz [145]		July 28, 2009	C
Gregor Mendel [146]		September 4, 2008	C
Hannibal [147]		April 27, 2009	C
Henrik Ibsen [148]		September 4, 2008	C
Henry II of England [149]		August 4, 2009	C
Henry VIII of England [150]		April 19, 2009	C	0.5
Hernán Cortés [151]		July 28, 2009	C
Herodotus [152]		September 4, 2008	C
Ho Chi Minh [153]		September 28, 2009	C
Homer [154]		October 12, 2009	C
Ivan IV of Russia [155]		July 28, 2009	C
James Watt [156]		September 1, 2008	C
Jean-Jacques Rousseau [157]		September 4, 2008	C
Jesse Owens [158]		September 28, 2009	C	0.5
Johann Sebastian Bach [159]		October 12, 2009	C
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [160]		August 4, 2009	C
Johannes Gutenberg [161]		August 4, 2009	C
John Locke [162]		August 4, 2009	C
Jorge Luis Borges [163]		October 17, 2009	C	0.5
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister [164]		September 1, 2008	C
Karl Marx [165]		December 23, 2009	C
Leo Tolstoy [166]		September 1, 2008	C
Louis Daguerre [167]		September 1, 2008	C
Louis Pasteur [168]		October 12, 2009	C
Louis XIV of France [169]		June 30, 2008	C	0.5
Mao Zedong [170]		July 28, 2009	C
Marcel Proust [171]		September 1, 2008	C
Margaret Sanger [172]		October 12, 2009	C	0.5
Max Planck [173]		October 12, 2009	C	0.5
Michelangelo [174]		August 8, 2009	C
Miguel de Cervantes [175]		July 22, 2009	C
Mikhail Baryshnikov [176]		September 1, 2008	C
Niccolò Machiavelli [177]		September 1, 2008	C
Nicolaus Copernicus [178]		December 20, 2008	C
Otto von Bismarck [179]		September 28, 2009	C
Pablo Picasso [180]		December 23, 2009	C
Peter I of Russia [181]		August 26, 2009	C
Philip II of Spain [182]		June 30, 2008	C
Pierre de Fermat [183]		September 1, 2008	C
Ptolemy [184]		October 12, 2009	C
Qin Shi Huang [185]		August 8, 2008	C
René Descartes [186]		September 28, 2009	C
Shaka [187]		September 28, 2009	C
Simón Bolívar [188]		August 21, 2009	C
Socrates [189]		July 28, 2009	C
Thomas Hobbes [190]		July 28, 2009	C	0.5
Thomas Jefferson [191]		September 6, 2009	C	0.5
Timur [192]		October 6, 2008	C
Victor Hugo [193]		July 22, 2009	C
Virgil [194]		September 1, 2008	C
Voltaire [195]		August 4, 2009	C
Walter Scott [196]		September 1, 2008	C
William I of England [197]		September 28, 2009	C
William Wordsworth [198]		September 1, 2008	C
Zheng He [199]		July 28, 2009	C
Zoroaster [200]		September 28, 2009	C