Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Biology

This is the page for the History of Biology WikiProject. If you would like to participate, add your name to the list of participants below. Be sure to check out the discussion page as well, and the parent project Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science.

Participants

• arkuat (talk) I started this because I got frustrated with Monera (much improved now!), and worried about Ernst Haeckel (still needs help), and thought that a more focused project that wasn't distracted by the history of the physical sciences might help me with these problems.
• Ragesoss
• NCurse: I mostly write articles about biology in hungarian wiki, but if you tell me what to write, ow where to help, I'm here. :)
• General Eisenhower Esc Shift Love Biology.
• Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC) Signing up for now, hope I get time for it. Great WikiProject!
• Espresso Addict
• Alexei Kouprianov I sign up. Mostly working for Russian Wiki, I sometimes contribute to the articles dealing with the history of biology and natural history. Alexei Kouprianov 12:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• John Schmidt How about a reference list for Monera?
• bwi410

Projects

• Make a precis (in this article) of life-science-specific projects languishing on Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject History of Science.

• If you find history of life science stubs, tag them as {{sci-hist-stub}}. If you find history of life science articles for which this hasn't already been done, add {{HistSci}} to their talk pages. Discuss developing templates specific to this project on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject History of Biology.

Articles in need of editorial help

• History of zoology, post-Darwin - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. Now included in the Zoology navigation template; high priority, needs to incorporate the other good history of biology articles where appropriate
• History of zoology (before Darwin) - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. High priority; in Zoology navigation template
• Silent Spring - needs section on historical significance, and better description of its contents; the only two sections of prose after the intro are currently Criticism and Vindication?, neither of which has much, if anything, worth keeping.
• Natural history - very bare, with some dubious information
• History of genetics - expand timelines into prose
• Heredity - is currently very poor, very short, and does not go back into concepts of heredity before the late 19th century in any appreciable sense.
• Max Delbrück
• History of molecular biology (see also molecular biology and Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids)
• History of biology - introduction (before ToC) could be a bit more succinct, with details moved into the body of the article
• Ernst Haeckel has had expert attention requested.