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 53 54 96 4 243 C 22 99 310 760 16 1,207 Start 6 79 351 1,473 65 1,974 Stub 12 120 11,654 1 10 11,797 List 3 5 12 41 1 3 65 Category 978 978 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 454 698 1,173 Template 1,808 1,808 NA 4 4 Other 17 17 Assessed 81 269 872 14,495 3,590 98 19,405 Unassessed 8 1 58 67 Total 81 269 872 14,503 3,591 156 19,472 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 86,301 Ω = 5.65
Microbiology articles by quality log March 19, 2025 Renamed Draft:Eva Maria Fenyö renamed to Eva Maria Fenyö. Draft:Jan Poolman renamed to Jan Poolman. Assessed Limonene (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Nitish Chandra Debnath (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Satish Amarnath (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Shinji Fukuda (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) March 18, 2025 Renamed Picobirnavirus renamed to Orthopicobirnavirus. Reassessed Autographivirales (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Orthopicobirnavirus (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Sulfur globule (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) March 17, 2025 Reassessed Cytorhabdovirus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to List-Class. (rev · t) Fusaproliferin (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Walter James Nungester (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Djungelskog (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Category:Filipino microbiologists (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) March 16, 2025 Renamed Amoebophyra renamed to Amoebophrya. Draft:Fusaproliferin renamed to Fusaproliferin. Assessed Amoebophrya (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) March 15, 2025 Assessed Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t) March 14, 2025 Reassessed Harold Macy (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:Shinji Fukuda (talk) removed. March 13, 2025 Reassessed Lactobacillaceae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Fusaproliferin (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
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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• 11 Mar 2025 – Alteripontixanthobacter muriae (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by J. Geerink (t · c) was deproded by Elmidae (t · c) on 14 Mar 2025

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• 18 Mar 2025 – DVSM (talk · edit · hist) →Fuligo septica was RfDed by Plantdrew (t · c); see discussion

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• 15 Jan 2025 – Zoonotic origins of COVID-19 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Origin of SARS-CoV-2 by Tiggerjay (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Dec 2024 – Verstraetearchaeota (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Thermoproteota by UtherSRG (t · c); 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
• 17 Jan 2025 – Cultured meat (talk · edit · hist) proposed for splitting by Kaasterly (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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• 14 Mar 2025 – Draft:Djungelskog (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by PebbleC (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)
• 03 Feb 2025 – Draft:Bertha Isabelle Barker (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Treponemapandemonium (t · c)
• 03 Feb 2025 – Draft:Ian Paulsen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ss6928 (t · c)
• 23 Jan 2025 – Draft:Early-bird effect (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 132.64.244.26 (t · c)
• 18 Mar 2025 – Draft:Nitish Chandra Debnath (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Somajyoti (t · c) was accepted to Nitish Chandra Debnath (talk · edit · hist) by Vinegarymass911 (t · c) on 18 Mar 2025
• 12 Mar 2025 – Draft:Fusaproliferin (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Levin.thijs (t · c) was accepted to Fusaproliferin (talk · edit · hist) by Sophisticatedevening (t · c) on 15 Mar 2025
• 19 Feb 2025 – Draft:Gyrosigma acuminatum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Soup011 (t · c) was accepted to Gyrosigma acuminatum (talk · edit · hist) by KylieTastic (t · c) on 22 Feb 2025
• 17 Feb 2025 – Draft:Zoogloeaceae (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Eaterofmicrobes (t · c) was accepted to Zoogloeaceae (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 10 Mar 2025

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