Brilliant prose

We think the following Wikipedia pages are pretty good. This is a selected list--since there are thousands of pages on Wikipedia, we couldn't possibly keep track of all the brilliant prose here! But if you come across a particularly impressive page, why not add it to the list as your way of saying "Thanks, good job"?

Be aware that you are most likely not the best judge of your own work. Even if you think a page you have contributed a large majority of the content to is brilliant, it is best that you wait for somebody else to recognise it as such.

Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Science

Pythagorean Theorem -- ordinal -- statistics (the whole area) -- Classical Mechanics -- Quantum Mechanics -- periodic table -- carbon -- alchemy -- Biology (many excellent pages here, and a good start generally) -- cladistics -- protista (the whole area) -- DNA -- Astronomy and Astrophysics -- Comet -- Earth -- Paleontology -- geologic ages (and related pages) -- game theory -- Global warming -- LSD

Social Sciences

History -- History of Levant -- Behistun Inscription -- Peloponnesian War -- Byzantine Empire -- History of Egypt -- History of United States -- World War I -- History of Germany -- East Germany -- Netherlands/History -- History of England -- History of Scotland -- Chinese history -- History of Science and Technology -- Nagasaki -- September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack -- Battle of Jutland

Language -- Language (some of the individual language pages are excellent) -- Japanese language -- British English -- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (excellent summary of a contentious topic) -- Hebrew language

Politics -- Anarchism -- Capitalism -- Democracy -- countries of the world (the CIA pages, anyway; hey, the CIA did a great job!) -- Voting system -- propaganda -- City (a few of the city articles are good) -- Prime Minister of Australia

Economics -- Economics -- Capitalism -- market forms (and related pages) -- prisoners dilemma

Law -- intellectual property -- copyright (and related pages) -- trade secret -- Law (bunches of good brief articles) -- hate crime -- negligence -- Terrorism

Sociology -- Milgram experiment -- Disabilities/Disability Etiquette

Applied Arts and Sciences

Echelon -- code -- The Singularity -- Linux -- computer system -- World Wide Web -- Search Engine -- markup language -- ASCII -- Computer Security -- information theory -- (probably others about Computing) -- Road Transport

Culture

Chess/Strategy and Tactics -- Spacecraft Propulsion -- Star Trek -- science fiction -- film theory -- Paramount -- horse-breaking -- horseshoe -- bulldogging -- jazz -- punk rock -- disco -- hip hop -- freestyle music -- musical instrument -- saxophone -- Hammond Organ -- Greek Mythology (and related pages) -- Christianity -- Catholicism -- Protestantism -- The Book of Mormon -- Scientology -- political correctness -- Game (this whole area is excellent) -- Go -- Poker (amazing!) -- Sheepshead -- Bridge -- video game (a great start) -- Stone, Paper, Scissors -- Summer Olympic Games -- Talking Heads -- calendar -- Norse Mythology (category) -- Pickup -- Hebrew Calendar -- Anno Domini -- Freemasonry -- baseball

Biography

Mortimer Adler -- Achilles -- Alexander the Great -- Humphrey Bogart -- Paul Erdos -- Ernest Hemingway -- Jim Henson -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Homer -- Stephen King -- Rudyard Kipling -- Lamarck -- Mozart -- Joshua A. Norton -- Perseus -- H. G. Wells -- Eugene Wigner -- Ibn Battuta

Wikipedia

Wikipedia FAQ -- Wikipedia NEWS -- WikiProject U.S. States

Again, feel free to add to the list when you feel an article deserves the mention! Perhaps some of these may be pages for the Wikipedia/Article a day queue list.

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