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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 48 B 36 54 56 103 6 255 C 22 101 313 787 34 1,257 Start 6 79 355 1,611 75 2,126 Stub 11 116 11,684 2 30 11,843 List 3 5 12 42 1 4 67 Category 1,036 1,036 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 19 464 725 1,211 Template 1,779 1,779 NA 1 1 Other 1 22 23 Assessed 81 273 878 14,709 3,649 149 19,739 Unassessed 3 46 49 Total 81 273 878 14,712 3,649 195 19,788 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 87,577 Ω = 5.64
Microbiology articles by quality log October 13, 2025 Reassessed Archigregarinorida (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Mid-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Rhodoplanes piscinae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Rosculus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Roseivirga seohaensis (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) October 12, 2025 Reassessed Protosteloid (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t) Raphidiophrys (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Soliformovum irregularis (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) October 11, 2025 Renamed Pasteurella langaa renamed to Pasteurella langaaensis. Reassessed Parabacteroides (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Henrik Drake (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Pasteurella langaaensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) October 10, 2025 Reassessed Morganellaceae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Charles Mérieux (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) October 9, 2025 Reassessed 1963 Wrocław smallpox epidemic (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Auxiliary metabolic genes (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Sanket Goel (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) October 7, 2025 Reassessed Achromatorida (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from High-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Delaphine Grace Wyckoff (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Hepatocystis (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Corythodinium (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Removed Template:Taxonomy/Lachnospirales (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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