Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology

Sea anemones from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of Nature) of 1904.

Welcome to WikiProject Biology, a common forum for discussing biology-related editing issues and guidelines. Join the discussion.

Overview

There are many active biology WikiProjects. The purpose of this project is to provide common ground for editors in these projects, for seeking advice or requesting help from a broader community of biology editors, and for coordinating the perpetual problem of categorization of biology articles. (For some time, this page was redirected to Portal:Biology, where the talk page served that purpose.)

Related WikiProjects

The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. This diagram implies 3 Domains / 6 Kingdoms (Woese et al. 1990): Archaea, Domain (and Kingdom) Eukarya, Domain Protista, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Animalia, Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Bacteria, Domain (and Kingdom)

• Parent: Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
• Daughter projects: See Category:WikiProject Biology

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Biophysics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology
• WikiProject Genetics
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Paleontology
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Extinction
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fungi‎
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Marine life‎
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants‎
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Prokaryotes and Protists
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses‎

• Potential projects or work groups:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Reproduction
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Developmental biology
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservation biology
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal behavior (ethology)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology

To do

• Improve this page and make it more useful for biology editors
• Advertise the existence of this project

Requests

• Article requests: Natural sciences – Biology
• Photo requests: Requested biology photographs

Article assessment

• Assessment – the assessment unit, which provides information about Biology articles rated by quality and importance, and the project's criteria for article quality grading.

Category maintenance

Many biology categories are in a bad way. They tend to fill up with articles on minor topics that are better placed in subcategories (or sub-subcategories, etc.).

(Statistics compiled June 22, 2007)

• Category:Biology - with 60 subcategories, it could use some reorganization. It also accumulates articles rapidly, so it needs regular attention.
  • Category:Anatomy - over 200 articles (Now down to 42. Clicketyclack 12:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC) )
  • Category:Biochemistry - almost 600 articles; desperately needs trimming (Now down to 18. Clicketyclack 09:26, 16 June 2007 (UTC))
  • Category:Botany - over 250 articles (Now down to 70. Clicketyclack 23:17, 28 June 2007 (UTC))
  • Category:Developmental biology - over 200 articles
  • Category:Diseases and disorders - over 500 articles, urgently needs trimming
  • Category:Ecology - 49 subcategories, 275 articles
  • Category:Evolutionary biology - over 200 articles
  • Category:Genetics - over 300 articles
  • Category:Medicine - over 150 articles, could do with some trimming. (Now down to 47. Clicketyclack 21:33, 25 June 2007 (UTC))
  • Category:Molecular biology - over 300 articles
  • Category:Neuroscience - over 200 articles (Now down to 27. Clicketyclack 16:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC))

Participants

Members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Biology}} to their userpages.
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Ragesoss (talk · contribs) - history of biology, portal maintenance --Kkrouni 00:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC) John Carter 15:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC) - Kind of out of my depth here in terms of content, but have access to a number of good libraries. Supernerd 10 Jet123 (Talk) 20:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC) Bendž|Ť 17:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC) --Boku wa kage 20:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC) OcciMoron 20:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC) Delta 40talk 04:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC) Richard001 23:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC) - Evolution and ecology, behavior, and a little of everything else Shyamal 04:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC) Manderson198 (talk) 14:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC) - Biology and chemistry student Wisdom89 (T / C) 00:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC) - Graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics.  Marlith (Talk)  00:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC) Razorflame assessment of articles Snellios - contributor; specialities genomics, biochemistry, pathology. Second year medical degree, Pathology MA student, Cambridge University, UK Tyciol (talk) 03:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC) I intend to become a biologist so I intend to help with this to improve my knowledge and benefit it more as I learn more. Pico del Teide (talk) mainly ecology Gumbacious (talk) 10:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC) interested in genetics, evolution, biotechnology, bioremediation, and biochemistry. Rex shock (talk) 23:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC) interested in phytoplankton and especially diatoms Carbonrodney (talk) 09:35, 21 July 2008 (UTC) - anything and everything Ian Cheesman interested and knowledgeable in many different areas of biology, more so in the areas of genetics, evolution, ecology, mammals, and fungi. Vuerqex Amit6 (talk • contribs • count • global contribs) TedPavlic — Control Systems engineer doing bio-inspired work, which includes some contributions to mathematical modeling in behavioral ecology Murphy2010 (talk) 22:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC) Thompsma - recently revised and wrote most of Conservation Biology and Long-toed salamander Thompsma (talk) 03:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC) — Lord Shivan («T»|«C») 20:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC) - Biology student. Tyrol5 (talk) 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC) - Biology and microbiology of the lungs and lung diseases specifically. Acullum 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC) - Physiology and evolutionary biology, plus interests in other areas. Ernstblumberg 23:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC) Nanowolf (talk) 02:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC) - MIT bioengineer. Bueller 007 (talk) 04:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC) - evolutionary biology and population genetics Fivestar9 - general biology Fences&Windows 23:41, 31 August 2009 (UTC) Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:00, 24 September 2009 (UTC) Matt (talk) 19:26, 18 November 2009 (UTC) ~ Ciar ~ (Talk) 02:15, 23 November 2009 (UTC) Twilight Helryx 15:24, 27 November 2009 (UTC) Colincbn (talk) 05:33, 17 December 2009 (UTC) Shinryuu - molecular biology, microbiology and biomedicine, especially immunology, toxicology and oncology -- Shinryuu (talk) 21:39, 20 June 2010 (UTC) Sepia officinalis - Evolution, ecology, ornithology, and marine science razorbelle (talk) (contribs) Mesoderm (talk) 07:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC) -- Ecology, toxicology, bioinformatics kjspring1 (talk) (contribs) - Genome Evolution, Gene duplication, Ciliate, Protist, and Chilodonella uncinata Xarus - Molecular Biology,Cell Biology,Synthetic Biology, Glycomics AshLin (talk) 11:09, 2 July 2011 (UTC) Staticd (talk) 11:53, 12 July 2011 (UTC) NickCT (talk) 16:43, 13 July 2011 (UTC) - Proteomics, Epigenetics Pmrich 11:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC) Grapplequip (formerly LAR) (talk) 19:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC) - Ecology, Evolution, sociobiology, ethology

Templates

• {{Portal|Biology}} is added to the See also section of all biology-related articles, which produces:
  

This provides a direct link to the Biology portal.

• {{WikiProject Biology}} is added to the top of talk pages of all biology-related articles, which produces:
  

See also

• Wikipedia:How to use primary sources (biological sciences)

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Biology

Directory of WikiProjects

WikiProject Council

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