Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Microbiology/Archive 3

Any interest in a WikiProject Microscopy?

I was wondering if anybody here was interested in starting a WikiProject for Microscopy, since many of the microscopy-related articles on Wikipedia are in need of cleanup, expansion, or other work. Microscopy topics have so far been a subset of this project, however, the applications of microscopy go far beyond microbiology, and use of microscopes is central to many other biological and non-biological sciences. And, of course, the optics underlying microscopy are essentially applied physics. Anyway, I just thought I'd float the idea and see if there are any takers. Peter G Werner (talk) 21:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I've put together a formal proposal here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Microscopy. If interested, please add your name under "Interested Wikipedians". Peter G Werner (talk) 22:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed move of bubonic plague

Please view proposal and submit ideas on the talk page. cyclosarin (talk) 06:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Gram-confusion

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but I'm going of the principal the more places I ask it the more likely I am to get an answer. I'm confused as to weather Bacillus thermoproteolyticus is gram-positive or gram-negative. This source says its negative while this source lists it as positive. Can anyone clear this confusion up for me? K.murphy (talk) 15:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I think it is gram-positive, since it is a Bacillus. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Archaea

Hi everybody, I'm working on this article at the moment but I'm needing a few more eyes and constructive suggestions, since this isn't really my field. Any help would be great. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Thia article has now been nominated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Archaea. Comments and reviews would be most welcome. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

• The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
• The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
• A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 20:57, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed new template

Made it just then, more of a unifying template to put on all articles relating to microbiology. Any ideas?

(Before adding it to any articles, please move it away from my userspace.) Linkthewindow (talk) 00:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Heres another one

Microorganisms
Bacteria Viruses(Introduction) Archaea Protists Moulds Yeast Wikiproject Microbiology

Linkthewindow (talk) 00:03, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Help for classifying Veillonella

Hi,

I'm probably a little out of my depth here, but I came across Veillonella in the Dead end section. I've added a taxobox based on UniProt's classification. http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/29465. Only trouble is that Veillonella is listed under Acidaminococcaceae currently and there's no entry for Veillonellaceae, the family UniProt classifies Veillonella as part of, on Wikipedia. I'm a bit loath to add it to Clostridia's taxobox without being certain what's going on here. Ka Faraq Gatri (talk) 22:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

FAR Listing

Helicobacter pylori has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 02:15, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 520 articles are assigned to this project, of which 118, or 22.7%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place the following template on your project page:

{{User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|banner=WikiProject Micro}}

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Automated creation of alga articles

Hi,

While perhaps not strictly microbes, I'm writing a bot to create short articles about algal taxa, from the genus level up. Stubs will appear over the next couple of days here; more details are available here, where any comments would be gratefully received.

Thanks, Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 17:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Martin,

That's great news! :) I went on an enthusiastic spree roughly a year ago, making articles for most taxa of the Chlorophyta and Charophyta (the green algae) at genus-level and higher, but undoubtedly I missed some and new taxa have been added in the meanwhile. You might also consider developing a bot to improve those earlier articles with a fuller description, images, more links to literature and databases, etc. I did the best I could, but I'm no expert and they were pretty rudimentary. Thanks for your good work, Willow (talk) 19:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

PS. I made a few templates and categories to help with the work, which you might consider? I made separate categories for each of the (major) taxonomic levels of algae: Category:Algae taxonomic classes, Category:Algae taxonomic orders, Category:Algae taxonomic families, and [[Category:Algae genera. Secondly, I made two templates for linking to taxonomic references and databases, unimaginatively titled {{Taxonomic references}} and {{Taxonomic links}}. ;) We can modify or specialize them for you, if that'd help! :) Willow (talk) 19:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Microbiology

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

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I've made some comments at Wikipedia_talk:Version_0.7#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microbiology_assessment. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:03, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Effective microorganisms

There is a oddly phrased article at Effective microorganism that seems a bit unclear on whether it is NPOV or sourced correctly. Thought this project might like to be made aware of it.--ZayZayEM (talk) 06:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)