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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 98 326 840 49 1,335 Start 6 78 358 1,762 102 2,306 Stub 10 115 11,758 3 41 11,927 List 3 6 13 46 1 4 73 Category 1,053 1,053 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 18 468 814 1,303 Template 4,819 4,819 NA 1 1 Other 1 25 26 Assessed 81 269 893 14,998 6,799 203 23,243 Unassessed 27 27 Total 81 269 893 14,998 6,799 230 23,270 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 89,304 Ω = 5.62
Microbiology articles by quality log Incendiamoeba Cascadensis renamed to Incendiamoeba cascadensis. DinQ-agrB toxin-antitoxin system renamed to DinQ–agrB toxin–antitoxin system. SrnB-SrnC toxin-antitoxin system renamed to SrnB–SrnC toxin–antitoxin system. Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Global Microbiome Conservancy (GMbC) (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t) Incendiamoeba Cascadensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Draft:Ophrydiidae (talk) removed. Template:Taxonomy/Ventrifilosa (talk) removed. History of syphilis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Importance. (rev · t) Eric W. Triplett (talk) removed. Mycobacterium avium silvaticum renamed to Mycobacterium avium subsp. silvaticum. Paraburkholderia endofungorum renamed to Mycetohabitans endofungorum. Paraburkholderia rhizoxinica renamed to Mycetohabitans rhizoxinica. Streptomyces sp. myrophorea renamed to Streptomyces sp. 'myrophorea'. Mycetohabitans (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Paralactobacillus (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Category:Extracellular matrix secreting cells (talk) removed. Bacteroides ureolyticus renamed to Campylobacter ureolyticus. Brotocaccenecus cirricatena renamed to Brotocaccenecus. Dechloromonas agitata strain CKB renamed to Dechloromonas agitata. Mycobacterium avium avium renamed to Mycobacterium avium subsp. avium. Mycobacterium avium hominissuis renamed to Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis. Mycobacterium chimaera (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Importance to NA-Importance. (rev · t) Bilophila (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Caenibius (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Congregibacter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Convivina (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Mycobacterium avium (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Importance. (rev · t) Trichophyton mentagrophytes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Importance. (rev · t) Horizontal gene transfer in evolution (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Mid-Importance to NA-Importance. (rev · t) Hemistasia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Hemistasiidae (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t) Draft:LMP-102 (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Importance. (rev · t)
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) AfDed by Abandeali (t · c) was closed as merge by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) on 17 Sep 2026; see discussion (5 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 24 Sep 2026 – Anaerotardibacter (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Allocoprobacillus (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Faecalibacillus faecis (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Lactobacillus paragasseri (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Turicibacter sanguinis (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Selenomonadaceae (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Victivallis (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Enterobacter kobei (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Claveliimonas (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern
• 24 Sep 2026 – Pseudomaricurvus (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by M kuhner (t · c): concern

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Good article nominees

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

Good article reassessments

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

Requested moves

• 19 Aug 2026 – SrnB-SrnC toxin-antitoxin system (talk · edit · hist) move request somewhere else by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c) was moved to SrnB–SrnC toxin–antitoxin system (talk · edit · hist) by Iseult (t · c) on 22 Sep 2026; see discussion
• 19 Aug 2026 – DinQ-agrB toxin-antitoxin system (talk · edit · hist) move request somewhere else by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c) was moved to DinQ–agrB toxin–antitoxin system (talk · edit · hist) by Iseult (t · c) on 22 Sep 2026; see discussion

Articles to be split

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

Articles for creation

• 22 Sep 2026 – Draft:Global Microbiome Conservancy (GMbC) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lars Bädeker (t · c)

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5	Bacteria	FA
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