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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on December 30, 2004.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 27, 2004	Peer review	Reviewed
November 14, 2004	Peer review	Reviewed
November 22, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 4, 2005	Featured article review	Kept
August 31, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
September 25, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
September 13, 2010	Featured article review	Demoted
April 6, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 21, 2017, and April 21, 2021.
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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Section sizes

Section size for Max Weber (43 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	7,027	7,027
Biography	14	34,752
Early life and education	7,152	7,152
Marriage, early work, and breakdown	6,320	6,320
Later work	5,796	5,796
Political involvements	1,256	9,623
First World War	4,389	4,389
Weimar Republic	3,978	3,978
Last years	5,847	5,847
Methodology	1,429	12,807
Verstehen markup removed; cannot link (help)	4,898	4,898
Methodological individualism	1,920	1,920
Ideal type	2,246	2,246
Value-freedom	2,314	2,314
Theories	13	47,136
Rationalisation	5,099	5,099
Disenchantment	1,794	1,794
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	4,758	4,758
The Economic Ethics of the World Religions	2,313	9,634
The Religion of China	2,361	2,361
The Religion of India	3,230	3,230
Ancient Judaism	1,730	1,730
Theodicy	3,144	3,144
The state, politics, and government	3,695	10,698
Bureaucracy	3,435	3,435
Social stratification	3,568	3,568
The vocation lectures	3,104	3,104
The City	1,924	1,924
Economics	1,406	6,968
Economy and Society	1,982	1,982
Marginal utility	1,493	1,493
Economic calculation	2,087	2,087
Inspirations	5,876	5,876
Legacy	1,720	9,149
Weber studies	5,417	5,417
Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe markup removed; cannot link (help)	2,012	2,012
Bibliography	50	50
See also	65	65
Citations	34	34
General and cited sources	37,382	37,382
Further reading	9,305	9,305
External links	629	3,259
Online editions	2,630	2,630
Total	166,842	166,842