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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	21	609	630
	FL		80	80
	A	1	26	27
	GA	23	1455	1478
	B	114	14829	14943
	C	40	5216	5256
	Start	1	133701	133702
	Stub		384940	384940
	List		380	380
	Assessed	200	541236	541436
	Unassessed		174962	174962
	Total	200	716198	716398

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
		Top	Total
Quality
	FA	21	21
	A	1	1
	GA	23	23
	B	114	114
	C	40	40
	Start	1	1
	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] Criteria

For placement on this list, consider the following criteria.

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