Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology

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 3 242 C 22 99 309 760 15 1,205 Start 6 79 351 1,473 61 1,970 Stub 12 120 11,653 1 10 11,796 List 3 5 12 40 1 3 64 Category 976 976 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 3 3 Other 21 21 Assessed 81 269 871 14,493 3,591 92 19,397 Unassessed 7 1 59 67 Total 81 269 871 14,500 3,592 151 19,464 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 86,264 Ω = 5.65
Microbiology articles by quality log March 6, 2025 Assessed Thiomicrorhabdus arctica (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) March 5, 2025 Assessed Category:Measles outbreaks in the United States (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) March 4, 2025 Reassessed Asgard (Archaea) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Eva Maria Fenyö (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Removed File:EUCAST Zones of inhibition.png (talk) removed. March 3, 2025 Assessed Anabaena azollae (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) File:EUCAST Zones of inhibition.png (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as File-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) March 2, 2025 Renamed Leptotrichia goodfellowii renamed to Pseudoleptotrichia goodfellowii. Assessed Pseudoleptotrichia goodfellowii (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) March 1, 2025 Reassessed Prokaryote (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Leptotrichiaceae (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) February 28, 2025 Reassessed Mesorhizobium mediterraneum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-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} Barnstar {Microbiology Barnstar} Microbiology barnstar {1} Stub Microbiology {Microbiology-stub} v t e Stub Bacteria {Bacteria-stub} v t e Stub Archaea {Archaea-stub} v t e Stub Yeast {Yeast-stub} v t e Stub Protist {Protist-stub} v t e Stub Virus {Virus-stub} v t e 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. Microbiology Unassessed This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microbiology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Microbiology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MicrobiologyWikipedia:WikiProject MicrobiologyTemplate:WikiProject MicrobiologyMicrobiology ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Articles to be merged

• 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

Articles to be split

• 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

Articles for creation

• 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)
• 17 Feb 2025 – Draft:Zoogloeaceae (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eaterofmicrobes (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:Katherine Mary G. Davies (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)
• 06 Jan 2025 – Draft:Eva Maria Fenyö (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sut64 (t · c)
• 06 Jan 2025 – Draft:Jan Poolman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wikicluck44 (t · c)
• 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

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