Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology/Collaboration of the Month
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The Article Creation and Improvement Drive is a monthly collaboration to improve molecular and cellular biology articles to good or featured article status.
- /History - For past winners.
- /Removed - For removed nominations.
- /Update how-to - For updating the collaboration of the month.
Introduction
To vote or nominate you have to be a registered user with at least one contribution that is not a vote. Any molecular and cellular biology related article may be nominated except:
- Articles that are currently at featured status
- Articles in edit wars
A great place to start is the project worklist, which contains a list of many articles that have been identified as being of interest to the project, as well as their importance and state of completion.
How to nominate
I | Add nomination
Copy and paste the following template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. ===Template:SrcLink=== {{MCB CoM|start=September 2, 2024|votes=1}} ; Support: # ~~~~ ; Comments: * (put your reason for nomination) ~~~~ ---- Under "comments" section put an explanation of what work is needed. |
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II | Notify
After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article and put {{MCBnom}}{{to do}} on the top of the article's talk page. (skip {{to do}} if it's already present on the articles talk page) |
How to vote
Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the template. You can vote for as many articles as you like.
How the article is selected
Article with most votes on the first day of each month in 00:00 GMT is selected as "The current MCB Article Improvement Drive article". If two articles have same number of votes, the older nominee wins.
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The next selection will be on Tuesday, 01 October 2024 00:00:00 (UTC) |
How an article is removed from the list
Articles need one vote per three weeks to stay on the list. If the current date (September 2 2024) exceeds the "stays until" date of that particular article, the article entry is generally removed from this page and moved to page for removed nominations.
Nominations
- Support
- Million_Moments 16:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- ~ Ciar ~ (Talk to me!) 21:18, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- Scientizzle 23:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- TwoOars 16:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
- ClockworkSoul 17:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
- Gorton k (talk) 18:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- Comments
- This article about an extremly important class of enzymes is only start class and has also been tagged as needing a clean up and more references! Million_Moments 16:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- Back in 2004, this was even a featured article candidate. Now in languages in start state. – ClockworkSoul 17:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
- In languages? What was I even trying to say here? Possibly something along the lines of "in our current language". – ClockworkSoul 12:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- Support
- JFW | T@lk 08:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- ClockworkSoul 15:47, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- ~ Ciar ~ (Talk to me!) 18:53, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
- — Scientizzle 00:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
- Jugglerpete (talk) 17:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- Comments
- The role of cholesterol is biology is undisputed. The article presently emphasises its role in human health, but naturally there is much more to be done. JFW | T@lk 08:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- Apart from anything else the frequent mentions of cholesterol in the news means this article should be much better.Jugglerpete (talk) 17:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support
- Comments
- Top importance, but only start class...it's an article on an entire Kingdom with only three cited sources! — Scientizzle 00:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
- Yikes. We should also get the Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of life and Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology people in on this one. – ClockworkSoul 18:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Gene expression and retinue
- Support
- Comments
- not sure if it is doable but not one article but a cluster: Gene expression/Regulation of gene expression + Post-transcriptional modification/Post-transcriptional regulation + Post-translational modification/Post-translational regulation have been quite talked about in the wikiproject (Translation (biology) needs a picture and Transcription (genetics) is tagged). Problem is interconnectivity and too much information in the wrong places with other being lacking. Central dogma of molecular biology is the network hub and it is a good article. I made the tpl:Molecular Biology which is not enough (and it stinks). The roman emperors have cool vertical templates, which might be an idea. Squidonius (talk) 14:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
- That's quite a proposal, but looking over the articles they do clearly need quite a bit of love. Perhaps we can drop a message over at the newly formed WP:WikiProject Genetics? – ClockworkSoul 18:17, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
- As they form a series and I needed a break, I made a template, here is the spoiler: template:MolBioCentralDogma (I stole the formatingfrom the romans) will finish it next week eventually...----
- (Fixed that link for ya) Thats really snazzy! Is it ready for prime time? – ClockworkSoul 08:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- I hate to say this... but one of my pet peeves is the misunderstanding of the central dogma to mean DNA -> RNA -> protein, because inevitably someone follows this with "and reverse transcriptase violates the central dogma!" (It does not. The central dogma is about the directionality of information: it can go from nucleic acid to nucleic acid or protein, but cannot be transferred from protein to protein or protein to nucleic acid.) I worry this template would only promote this misinterpretation. Would it be possible to use another name for this template, eg. "gene expression"? Madeleine ✉ ✍ 13:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- Sure, Dogma is as the template name as it is the most catchy word in Mol Bio (that is why F Crick incorrectly chose it). gene expression actually works better (less awesome though). Consider it changed. The template picture remains as it is (simple), if that is ok. --Squidonius (talk) 14:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- I hate to say this... but one of my pet peeves is the misunderstanding of the central dogma to mean DNA -> RNA -> protein, because inevitably someone follows this with "and reverse transcriptase violates the central dogma!" (It does not. The central dogma is about the directionality of information: it can go from nucleic acid to nucleic acid or protein, but cannot be transferred from protein to protein or protein to nucleic acid.) I worry this template would only promote this misinterpretation. Would it be possible to use another name for this template, eg. "gene expression"? Madeleine ✉ ✍ 13:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- (Fixed that link for ya) Thats really snazzy! Is it ready for prime time? – ClockworkSoul 08:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support
- Comments
- A very important concept in biology and needs significant expansion Million_Moments (talk) 15:26, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
- Support
- Comments
- This poor article, important (importance=top) even at the secondary school level, is of a truly poor quality (class=stub). Truly, it needs some love!