Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology

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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 56 107 6 260 C 22 98 321 834 48 1,323 Start 6 78 361 1,723 97 2,265 Stub 10 115 11,721 3 38 11,887 List 3 5 13 45 1 4 71 Category 1,052 1,052 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 19 465 808 1,295 Template 4,840 4,840 NA 2 2 Other 29 29 Assessed 81 268 892 14,913 6,818 194 23,166 Unassessed 25 25 Total 81 268 892 14,913 6,818 219 23,191 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 88,817 Ω = 5.62
Microbiology articles by quality log July 28, 2026 Renamed Coprococcus comes renamed to Allocoprococcus comes. Pseudomonas stutzeri renamed to Stutzerimonas stutzeri. Removed Template:Taxonomy/Proteomyxia (talk) removed. July 27, 2026 Reassessed Vampyrellidae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Draft:Markus Pauly (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) July 26, 2026 Removed Template:Taxonomy/Eothecia (talk) removed. Template:Taxonomy/Incertae sedis/Filosa (talk) removed. July 25, 2026 Reassessed Allisonella (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Aristaeella (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Bifidobacterium globosum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Bovifimicola (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Hominimerdicola (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Hominimerdicola alba (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Lentihominibacter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Mediterraneibacter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Olsenella kribbiana (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Tractidigestivibacter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) July 24, 2026 Renamed Olsenella scatoligenes renamed to Tractidigestivibacter scatoligenes. Ruminococcus torques renamed to Mediterraneibacter torques. Reassessed Allisonella (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Tripropionin (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Bifidobacterium boum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Dialister histaminiformans (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) July 22, 2026 Reassessed Barry P. Rosen (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Cyclospora (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Cyclospora (genus) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (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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• 08 Jul 2026 – Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Beta Beta Beta (t · c); see discussion

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• 26 Jul 2026 – Thomas Francis and Ruth Reardon O'Brien (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JTZegers (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)

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• 22 Jul 2026 – Amblyosporidae (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Kowal2701 (t · c): Presumptive removal of LLM-generated content, see {{slink|Wikipedia:AI noticeboard#User:Mugenakashi101}}. Feel free to reinstate by following the procedures for disputing presumptive removal of LLM-generated content.

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• 20 Jul 2026 – Cyclospora (talk · edit · hist) →Cyclosporiasis RfDed by Plantdrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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

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

Requested moves

• 09 Jul 2026 – Developayellaceae (talk · edit · hist) move request to Developea by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Developea (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
• 02 Jul 2026 – Tectofilosid (talk · edit · hist) move request to Tectofilosida by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Tectofilosida (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 11 Jul 2026; see discussion
• 02 Jul 2026 – Pansomonad (talk · edit · hist) move request to Pansomonadida by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Pansomonadida (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 11 Jul 2026; see discussion
• 07 Jun 2026 – Tetrahelia (talk · edit · hist) move request to Tetradimorpha pterbica by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Tetradimorpha pterbica (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 21 Jun 2026; see discussion
• 07 Jun 2026 – Helkesida (talk · edit · hist) move request to Sainouroidea by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Sainouroidea (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
• 28 May 2026 – Phaeodarea (talk · edit · hist) move request to Phaeodaria by Jako96 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 28 May 2026 – Trypanosoma evansi (talk · edit · hist) move request to Trypanosoma brucei evansi by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Trypanosoma brucei evansi (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 10 Jun 2026; see discussion

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• 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

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• 20 Jul 2026 – Draft:Marek Basler (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Doemsche (t · c)
• 04 May 2026 – Draft:Jean-Claude Manuguerra (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JohnR-FR (t · c)
• 04 May 2026 – Draft:Hydrothermarchaeota (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Learnivore (t · c)
• 08 Apr 2026 – Draft:Mirko Bischofberger (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Quaenuncabibis (t · c)
• 08 Jul 2026 – Draft:Barry P. Rosen (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Brosen1b (t · c) was accepted to Barry P. Rosen (talk · edit · hist) by HazelAlbertSheriff (t · c) on 11 Jul 2026
• 01 Jul 2026 – Draft:Syklea (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by AdeleSpinks (t · c) was declined by Helpful Raccoon (t · c) on 06 Jun 2026
• 02 Jun 2026 – Draft:Richard Yuqi Zhao (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by RYZScholar (t · c) was accepted to Richard Yuqi Zhao (talk · edit · hist) by Nahleghini (t · c) on 29 Jun 2026
• 01 Jun 2026 – Draft:Biofouling (journal) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Biofoulinguru (t · c) was declined by EatingCarBatteries (t · c) on 02 Jun 2026
• 22 May 2026 – Draft:Pierre Calleja (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by MMLCJ (t · c) was declined by Helpful Raccoon (t · c) on 28 Jun 2026
• undated – Draft:Soil Memory (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was moved to Soil Memory (talk · edit · hist) by Balabush (t · c) on 30 Jun 2026

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