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 14 7 18 1 49 B 36 55 56 105 6 258 C 22 98 324 838 48 1,330 Start 6 78 359 1,760 102 2,305 Stub 10 114 11,750 3 41 11,918 List 3 6 13 46 1 4 73 Category 1,054 1,054 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 468 812 1,301 Template 4,821 4,821 NA 1 1 Other 1 24 25 Assessed 81 269 891 14,986 6,799 202 23,228 Unassessed 27 27 Total 81 269 891 14,986 6,799 229 23,255 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 89,225 Ω = 5.62
Microbiology articles by quality log September 10, 2026 Renamed Lagenidium giganteum forma caninum renamed to Lagenidium giganteum f. caninum. Reassessed Reticulofilosa (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Trichozoa (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Importance to Low-Importance. (rev · t) September 9, 2026 Renamed Spongomonad renamed to Spongomonadida. Reassessed Trichozoa (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Importance to NA-Importance. (rev · t) September 8, 2026 Reassessed Trichozoa (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Pseudoruminococcus massiliensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Segatella sinensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) September 4, 2026 Assessed Candidatus Magnetoglobus multicellularis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Removed Draft:Timothy Cover (talk) removed.
Writing guides Taxon names Candidatus higher taxa should not have the word Candidatus (or the abbreviation Ca.) in their names. For example, "Hodarchaeales" is the correct usage while "Candidatus Hodarchaeales" or "Ca. Hodarchaeales" are wrong. Candidatus genera and species should have Candidatus in their names. Other taxa should not have Candidatus in their names. Article titles Articles about taxa should not have quotes or Candidatus in their titles. 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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Articles for deletion

• 10 Sep 2026 – Horizontal gene transfer in evolution (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Abandeali (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

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• 28 Dec 2025 – Centrohelid (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Snoteleks (t · c); start discussion

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• 01 May 2026 – Smallpox (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

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• 22 Apr 2026 – Campylobacter jejuni (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2023 – Gram-negative bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
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• 18 Oct 2023 – Tetrahymena (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Tom.Reding (t · c); see discussion

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