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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 36 55 56 97 6 250 C 22 98 311 774 24 1,229 Start 6 81 352 1,529 75 2,043 Stub 11 118 11,665 1 18 11,813 List 3 5 12 41 1 4 66 Category 1,008 1,008 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 462 710 1,193 Template 1,794 1,794 NA 6 6 Other 16 16 Assessed 81 271 874 14,586 3,619 127 19,558 Unassessed 5 1 59 65 Total 81 271 874 14,591 3,620 186 19,623 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 86,853 Ω = 5.64
Microbiology articles by quality log June 23, 2025 Renamed Draft:Bacteroides ovatus renamed to Bacteroides ovatus. June 22, 2025 Renamed Candida auris renamed to Candidozyma auris. Reassessed Desulfobacterales (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Bifidobacterium mongoliense (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Candidozyma auris (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t) Corynebacterium camporealensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Rothia endophytica (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Streptococcus hyovaginalis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) June 21, 2025 Removed Draft:Susan M. Butler-Wu (talk) removed. June 20, 2025 Reassessed Operation Sea-Spray (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Vulcanimicrobiota (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Nebulidia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) June 19, 2025 Assessed Erko Stackebrandt (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Mergibacter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) June 18, 2025 Renamed Odoribacter renamed to Odoribacter. Reassessed Gemmatimonadota (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Kocuria (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Leptospirillum ferriphilum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Streptococcus porcinus (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Vibrio natriegens (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Eperythrozoon (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Lars Schaade (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) June 17, 2025 Reassessed Streptomyces albidoflavus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Removed Template:Taxonomy/Bacteroidetes-Chlorobi group (talk) removed. Template:Taxonomy/Bacteroidota–Chlorobiota group (talk) removed.
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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• 19 May 2025 – Nucleariid (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Snoteleks (t · c); see discussion

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• 08 May 2025 – Kat Milligan-McClellan (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 15 May 2025; see discussion (7 participants)
• 18 Apr 2025 – Huygens Software (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Clenpr (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 28 Apr 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 21 May 2025 – Unclassified Bradyrhizobium (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Plantdrew (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 27 May 2025

Categories for discussion

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

Redirects for discussion

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

Good article nominees

• 10 May 2025 – Nucleariid (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Snoteleks (t · c) was promoted by ZKevinTheCat (t · c), see discussion

Requested moves

• 07 Jun 2025 – Candidatus Melainobacteriota (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Melainabacteria by Jako96 (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Jun 2025 – Collodictyonidae (talk · edit · hist) move request to Diphylleida by Jako96 (t · c) was closed; 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

• 08 Jun 2025 – Otariodibacter oris (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Otariodibacter by Plantdrew (t · c); see discussion
• 03 May 2025 – Chlamydophila (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Chlamydia (genus) by Artoria2e5 (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

• 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
• 21 May 2025 – Draft:Esteya (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by DavidPires89 (t · c) was accepted to Esteya (talk · edit · hist) by Tarlby (t · c) on 26 May 2025
• 20 May 2025 – User:Chrys.arsena/sandbox (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Chrys.arsena (t · c) was declined by ToadetteEdit (t · c) on 20 May 2025
• 19 May 2025 – Draft:Tomasiella immunophila (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2600:1700:2620:F8F0:84B8:BD1B:8E03:1A49 (t · c) was accepted to Tomasiella immunophila (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 20 May 2025
• 18 May 2025 – Draft:Desulfobotulus sapovorans (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Brekynr (t · c) was declined by Tarlby (t · c) on 26 May 2025
• 02 May 2025 – Draft:Pocheina rosea (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 64.82.160.121 (t · c) was accepted to Pocheina rosea (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 18 May 2025
• 30 Apr 2025 – Draft:Endostelium zonatum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ariellehooper (t · c) was accepted to Endostelium zonatum (talk · edit · hist) by ScrabbleTiles (t · c) on 01 May 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
• 30 Mar 2025 – Draft:Diana Walstad (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Eternalsadshine (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 01 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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