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 Parentage WikiProject Science WikiProject Biology WikiProject Tree of Life WikiProject Microbiology WikiProject Viruses WikiProject AIDS WikiProject COVID-19 WikiProject Fungi WikiProject Molecular Biology Portals Science Biology Microbiology Viruses 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 Split : Mycoplasma Stubs : Category:Microbiology stubs, but also... Telonemia, Morganella morganii, Chaetoceros coarctatus, Roseofilum reptotaenium, Rhabdosphaera clavigera Other : Get to GA class: Mould, Yersinia pestis, Category:B-Class Microbiology articles Get to FA class: Escherichia coli, Yeast, Category:GA-Class_Microbiology_articles 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 Branches of microbiology Microbiologists Microorganisms Antimicrobials Applied microbiology Microbiology awards Biomagnetics Environmental microbiology Microbiology equipment Eukaryotic microbiology Food microbiology Geomicrobiology History of microbiology Infectious diseases Microbiology literature Microbial metabolism Microbial growth and nutrition Microbial population biology Microbiology organizations Microbiology techniques Microbiology terms Parasitology Secretion 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
	Microbiology articles by quality statics Microbiology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 5 5 10 FM 15 15 GA 9 13 7 17 46 B 36 55 55 96 5 247 C 22 98 311 766 21 1,218 Start 6 80 351 1,498 70 2,005 Stub 12 120 11,663 1 11 11,807 List 3 5 12 41 1 4 66 Category 1,008 1,008 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 456 707 1,184 Template 1,802 1,802 NA 3 3 Other 18 18 Assessed 81 271 874 14,537 3,623 111 19,497 Unassessed 6 1 53 60 Total 81 271 874 14,543 3,624 164 19,557 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 86,581 Ω = 5.65
Microbiology articles by quality log May 13, 2025 Assessed Cyanobacteriota (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Galeripora (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Glossary of protistology (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Removed Category:Enigmatic bikont taxa (talk) removed. May 12, 2025 Reassessed Category:Protista (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Roseobacter (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Eikenella (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) The Oslo Study (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Thelma Perry (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Removed Category:Excavata taxa (talk) removed. May 11, 2025 Renamed Parvularia atlantis renamed to Parvularia. Reassessed Nucleariida (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Parvularia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) May 9, 2025 Renamed Kraken (Cercozoa) renamed to Kraken carinae. Reassessed Amoebophrya (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Protostelium (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Kat Milligan-McClellan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Kraken carinae (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) May 8, 2025 Renamed Early-bird effect renamed to Early-bird effect. Reassessed Protosteliales (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Protosteloid (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Protostelium (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) May 7, 2025 Assessed Ancylobacter sonchi (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:Cyclodextran (talk) removed.
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.
Templates Template type What to type What it makes Userbox {{User WikiProject Micro}} This user is a participant in 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.

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• 22 May 2025 – Dracunculiasis (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

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• 08 May 2025 – Kat Milligan-McClellan (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 15 May 2025; see discussion (7 participants)
• 18 Apr 2025 – Huygens Software (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Clenpr (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 28 Apr 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 16 Apr 2025 – Layered Image File Format (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Clenpr (t · c) was closed as redirect by OwenX (t · c) on 23 Apr 2025; see discussion (5 participants)
• 29 Mar 2025 – Robert David Siegel (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Bonadea (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 05 Apr 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 28 Mar 2025 – Camera, hand lens, and microscope probe (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Anerdw (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 13 Apr 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 03 Apr 2025 – Korarchaeota (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Jako96 (t · c) was deproded by Elmidae (t · c) on 04 Apr 2025
• 30 Mar 2025 – Huygens Software (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 84.78.242.159 (t · c) was deproded by A. B. (t · c) on 02 Apr 2025
• 30 Mar 2025 – Layered Image File Format (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 90.167.219.239 (t · c) was deproded by A. B. (t · c) on 01 Apr 2025

Categories for discussion

• 26 Mar 2025 – Category:Trinidad and Tobago bacteriologists (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LibStar (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 26 Mar 2025 – Category:Moldovan bacteriologists (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LibStar (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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• 10 May 2025 – Nucleariid (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Snoteleks (t · c) was promoted by ZKevinTheCat (t · c), see discussion

Requested moves

• 02 Apr 2025 – Fusobacteriota (talk · edit · hist) move request to Fusobacteriati by Jako96 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 02 Apr 2025 – Asgard (Archaea) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Promethearchaeati by Jako96 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
• 01 Apr 2025 – Thermotogae (talk · edit · hist) move request to Thermotogota by Jako96 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

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• 03 May 2025 – Chlamydophila (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Chlamydia (genus) by Artoria2e5 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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• 18 Nov 2023 – Gram-negative bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2023 – Gram-positive bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Nov 2023 – Mycoplasma (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Oct 2021 – Tetrahymena (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CycoMa (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 18 May 2025 – Draft:Desulfobotulus sapovorans (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Brekynr (t · c)
• 02 Apr 2025 – Draft:Shinji Fukuda (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BabylonianBanana (t · c)
• 30 Mar 2025 – Draft:Diana Walstad (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eternalsadshine (t · c)
• 05 Mar 2025 – Draft:Mohammad Nodargah (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Simonirani (t · c)
• 21 Feb 2025 – Draft:Virome analysis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NotBillNyeScienceGuy (t · c)
• 02 May 2025 – Draft:Pocheina rosea (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 64.82.160.121 (t · c) was accepted to Pocheina rosea (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 18 May 2025
• 30 Apr 2025 – Draft:Endostelium zonatum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ariellehooper (t · c) was accepted to Endostelium zonatum (talk · edit · hist) by ScrabbleTiles (t · c) on 01 May 2025
• 10 Apr 2025 – Draft:Magdelena Osburn (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Merielle.15 (t · c) was declined by HickoryOughtShirt?4 (t · c) on 17 Apr 2025
• 14 Mar 2025 – Draft:Djungelskog (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by PebbleC (t · c) was moved to Djungelskog (talk · edit · hist) by BuySomeApples (t · c) on 18 Apr 2025
• 03 Feb 2025 – Draft:Bertha Isabelle Barker (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Treponemapandemonium (t · c) was accepted to Bertha Isabelle Barker (talk · edit · hist) by SL93 (t · c) on 17 May 2025

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