Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology

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About WikiProject Microbiology This Wikiproject aims to organize efforts to improve microbiology-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at the How you can help section below. You don't need to know anything about microbiology to help! Scope This project aims to cover all areas of microbiology including: bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, viruses, microbiologists, microbiological methods and concepts, microbiology equipment, microscopy, and other microbiology-related topics. Similar WikiProjects Parent WikiProject WikiProject Science WikiProject Biology (see Directory) WikiProject Tree of Life Child WikiProject WikiProject Viruses WikiProject AIDS WikiProject COVID-19 Related WikiProjects WikiProject Molecular Biology WikiProject Fungi Related Portals Science Biology Viruses Article statistics Microbiology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 5 4 9 FM 10 10 GA 8 10 6 8 32 B 30 44 45 66 1 186 C 24 91 270 642 3 1,030 Start 11 93 347 1,288 18 1,757 Stub 16 132 11,649 1 8 11,806 List 3 4 10 39 56 Category 846 846 Disambig 38 38 File 14 14 Portal 2 2 Project 13 13 Redirect 382 176 558 Template 1 140 141 Other 22 22 Assessed 81 262 810 14,075 1,262 30 16,520 Unassessed 3 8 11 Total 81 262 810 14,078 1,262 38 16,531 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 84,368 Ω = 5.69 Category tree WikiProject Microbiology articles Microbiology articles by importance Microbiology articles by quality Microbiology articles needing attention How you can help Improve articles We have over 10,000 articles listed as "stubs", pick your favorite and start adding more info! Nearly 20% of all Microbiology articles are tagged with some concern! These mark areas for improvement. Feel free to post on the talk page if you need a hand! Improve articles to GA! Check new articles added to our project! Start new articles Pick your favorite protein/microbe/microbiology-related thing and start a new article! If you need a hand, post on the talk page! Discuss Join in discussing proposals on the talk page. Any ideas are always welcome! Improve the project itself Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in microbiology to contribute. A bot-generated list of users active on microbiology pages is here! Categorise microbiology related articles Label articles of interest to the project by putting the banner template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to microbiology. Categorise articles by adding them to the appropriate microbiology categories as shown to right. Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Sterilisation (microbiology), Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus Expand : Antimicrobial, Colony-forming unit, Microbiologist, Lactobacillus, Lactic acid bacteria, Escherichia coli, Indicator bacteria, Yersinia pestis Merge : Bacterial cellular morphologies: (Coccus, Diplococcus, Coccobacillus, Bacilli, etc) Coliform Index into Faecal coliforms Merge and redirect all Alga stub basionyms Stubs : Clostridium botulinum, Telonemia, Serratia, Morganella morganii, Chaetoceros coarctatus, Roseofilum reptotaenium, Rhabdosphaera clavigera Other : Get to GA class: Mould, Yersinia pestis Get to FA class: Escherichia coli, Yeast edit this list edit this panel

WikiProject Microbiology Project standards Portal: Biology Portal Shortcuts: WP:MICRO Project template: {{WikiProject Micro}} Member userbox: {{User WikiProject Micro}} Category Navigation Microbiology Microbiologists Microorganisms Antimicrobials Applied microbiology Microbiology awards Bacteriology Biomagnetics Environmental microbiology Microbiology equipment Eukaryotic microbiology Food microbiology Geomicrobiology Infectious diseases Microbiology literature Microbial growth and nutrition Microbial population biology Microbiology organizations Microbiology techniques Microbiology terms Parasitology Secretion Virology Microbiology stubs Our sister projects Images and media from Commons Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary Textbooks from Wikibooks Quotations from Wikiquote Source texts from Wikisource News stories from Wikinews Learning resources from Wikiversity edit this panel

Templates Template type What to type What it makes Userbox {{User WikiProject Micro}} This user is a member of WikiProject Microbiology. Barnstar {{Microbiology Barnstar}} Microbiology barnstar {{{1}}} Stub Microbiology {{Microbiology-stub}} Stub Bacteria {{Bacteria-stub}} Stub Archaea {{Archaea-stub}} Stub Yeast {{Yeast-stub}} Stub Protist {{Protist-stub}} Stub Virus {{Virus-stub}} Taxobox {{Automatic taxobox}} click here to see how to use Most popular pages Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology/Popular pages Project banner The project banner is {{WikiProject Microbiology}}, and should be placed on the talk page of articles within the scope of this WikiProject. See the template page for usage instructions. Participants To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order. Inviting users {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology/Invitation}} can be used to invite users to the project.

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Categories for discussion

• 26 Jun 2022 – Category:Corynebacterineae (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Ninjatacoshell (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Jun 2022 – Category:Micrococcineae stubs (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Fayenatic london (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Jun 2022 – Category:Micrococcineae (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Ninjatacoshell (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Jun 2022 – Category:Micromonosporineae (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Ninjatacoshell (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Requests for comments

• 11 Oct 2021 – Malassezia (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Alexander Davronov (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 13 Jun 2022 – Life (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Interstatefive (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 03 May 2022 – Plastic degradation by marine bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Plastisphere by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Jan 2022 – Bennettinia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Plasmodium juxtanucleare by Invasive Spices (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 16 Oct 2021 – Tetrahymena (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CycoMa (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 06 Jul 2022 – Draft:Microbacterium virus MuffinTheCat (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Netherzone (t · c)
• 30 Jun 2022 – Draft:Fletchervirus (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Yirch (t · c)
• 11 Jun 2022 – Draft:Edward A. Adelberg (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ceoawaxx (t · c)
• 10 May 2022 – Draft:Thermocrinis jamiesonii (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JLSMicrobiology (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Alexander L. Greninger (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
• 30 Jun 2022 – Draft:Olivier Berteau (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by CuriousKemist (t · c) was declined by Gusfriend (t · c) on 03 Jul 2022
• 28 Jun 2022 – Draft:Milnesium alpigenum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Yirch (t · c) was accepted to Milnesium alpigenum (talk · edit · hist) by JBW (t · c) on 04 Jul 2022
• 21 May 2022 – Draft:Miren Basaras (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Mariah Harned (t · c) was accepted to Miren Basaras (talk · edit · hist) by MurielMary (t · c) on 22 May 2022
• 02 Apr 2022 – Draft:Garrett A. Perchetti (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Surfingfan84 (t · c) was declined by Gusfriend (t · c) on 19 Jun 2022
• undated – Draft:Savitr Bioscience Pvt. Ltd. (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was deleted

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