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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 18 47 B 37 54 56 99 6 252 C 21 99 311 786 25 1,242 Start 6 81 352 1,575 78 2,092 Stub 11 118 11,700 1 21 11,851 List 3 5 12 42 1 4 67 Category 1,011 1,011 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 465 711 1,197 Template 1,782 1,782 NA 7 7 Other 16 16 Assessed 81 271 874 14,685 3,612 134 19,657 Unassessed 5 1 57 63 Total 81 271 874 14,690 3,613 191 19,720 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 87,384 Ω = 5.64
Microbiology articles by quality log July 31, 2025 Assessed Hornefia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Muricomes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) July 30, 2025 Renamed Naegleriasis renamed to Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Raoultella electrica renamed to Klebsiella electrica. Assessed Acetatifactor aquisgranensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Bilifractor (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Blautia fusiformis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Butyricicoccus porcorum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Klebsiella electrica (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Kosakonia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Lelliottia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t) Streptococcus ruminicola (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) July 29, 2025 Renamed Flavivirus renamed to Orthoflavivirus. Assessed Bacteroides uniformis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Orthoflavivirus (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as High-Class. (rev · t) July 28, 2025 Renamed Enterobacter cowanii renamed to Kosakonia cowanii. Enterobacter taylorae renamed to Enterobacter cancerogenus. Assessed Blautia celeris (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Enterobacter cancerogenus (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Kosakonia cowanii (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) July 27, 2025 Renamed Rhodobacter sphaeroides renamed to Cereibacter sphaeroides. Assessed Cereibacter sphaeroides (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) July 26, 2025 Assessed Category:Bacteria described in 2024 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Category:Fibrobacterota (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Promethearchaeum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Draft:TerraMax Microbial Inoculants (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) July 25, 2025 Assessed Mariangela Hungria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-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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Categories for discussion

• 29 Jun 2025 – Category:Lactovum (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Tyroxin (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 06 Jun 2025 – Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina microbiologists (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LibStar (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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• 12 Jun 2025 – Sulcomonadidae (talk · edit · hist) →Collodictyonidae RfDed by Jako96 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

• 22 Jul 2025 – History of penicillin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 13 Jul 2025 – Naegleriasis (talk · edit · hist) move request to Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis by Cyrobyte (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 19 Jun 2025 – Collodictyonidae (talk · edit · hist) move request to Diphylleida by Jako96 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 07 Jun 2025 – Candidatus Melainobacteriota (talk · edit · hist) move request to Melainabacteria by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Vampirovibrionophyceae (talk · edit · hist) by Pppery (t · c) on 06 Jul 2025; see discussion
• 01 Jun 2025 – Picozoa (talk · edit · hist) move request to Picomonas by Jako96 (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 22 Jul 2025 – Sodaliphilus pleomorphus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sodaliphilus by William Avery (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Jul 2025 – 2-Aminoadipic-2-oxoadipic aciduria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Alpha-aminoadipic and alpha-ketoadipic aciduria by Abvdj (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Jul 2025 – Floccifex porci (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Floccifex by William Avery (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Jun 2025 – Otariodibacter oris (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Otariodibacter by Plantdrew (t · c) was closed; 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
• 16 Oct 2021 – Tetrahymena (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CycoMa (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 08 Jul 2025 – Draft:Bifidobacterium animalis subspecies lactis (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ilh48 (t · c) was accepted to Bifidobacterium animalis subspecies lactis (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 13 Jul 2025
• 30 Jun 2025 – Draft:Sphingobacterium spiritivorum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Kasibee67 (t · c) was moved to Sphingobacterium spiritivorum (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 06 Jul 2025
• 20 Jun 2025 – Draft:Bacteroides ovatus (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Seagull1234 (t · c) was accepted to Bacteroides ovatus (talk · edit · hist) by KylieTastic (t · c) on 22 Jun 2025
• 02 Apr 2025 – Draft:Shinji Fukuda (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by BabylonianBanana (t · c) was accepted to Shinji Fukuda (talk · edit · hist) by Timtrent (t · c) on 08 Jun 2025
• 05 Mar 2025 – Draft:Mohammad Nodargah (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Simonirani (t · c) was declined by Timtrent (t · c) on 02 Jun 2025

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