Talk:Bacteria

Courtesy ping

Pinging @T g7, as the editor who added the claims in question, making sure they're aware of and able to rectify the the {{citation needed}} tag added in the lead by User:Anastrophe if they so choose. Remsense 🌈 论 22:15, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, Remsense. It looks like user T g7 is an infrequent editor, so not sure how soon they might address it. I was most intrigued by the claim that "Unlike Archaea, bacteria [...] are resistant to diphtheria toxin [...]". That seemed far-fetched - that all bacteria are resistant to diphtheria toxin, particularly considering that the diphtheria bacterium itself is susceptible to its own toxin. I learned that while googling just now on this very subject. However, this is far and away not something I have any expertise in. That said, my understanding is that there should be nothing in the lede that isn't explicitly discussed in the body, so the tag itself may be too charitable; the claims should probably be removed sooner than later, since at least one of them doesn't hold up to scrutiny. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 22:37, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

I'm going to replace it with a span tag so fresh-eyed editors can more immediately know what should be cited. Remsense 🌈 论 22:38, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I added a citation for the diphtheria toxin information but I did not delete the citation-needed span tag. T g7 (talk) 03:44, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2025

CHANGE THIS: 12,200,000 base pairs (12.2 Mbp) in the soil-dwelling bacteria Sorangium cellulosum.[136] TO THIS: 16,040,000 base pairs (16.04 Mbp) in myxobacterium Minicystis rosea. CITATION (including the links can be found in Myxobycteria page): Shilpee Pal, Gaurav Sharma & Srikrishna Subramanian (2021-09-13). "Complete genome sequence and identification of polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis genes of the myxobacterium Minicystis rosea DSM 24000T". BMC Genomics. 22 (1): 655. doi:10.1186/s12864-021-07955-x. PMC 8436480. PMID 34511070. 37.188.136.184 (talk) 10:10, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

 Done I left in the 12.2 Mbp stat for Sorangium cellulosum, and added 16.0 to the end of the same sentence, and redlinked to Minicystis rosea with this edit Xan747 (talk) 19:34, 30 August 2025 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2026

Remove, in section "Habitats", remove "Pyrolobus fumarii" and "Pyrococcus furiosus" from examples of thermophiles, as they should be relocated to Archaea. Draecho (talk) 21:44, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done Donald Albury 22:06, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Bacteria as kingdom

In the earlier five-kingdom classification, bacteria were placed within the kingdom Monera. However, advances in biological classification led to the recognition of six kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Bacteria, and Archaea. Therefore, the short description and lead of this Wikipedia article should identify Bacteria as a kingdom. Instant History (talk) 05:14, 11 July 2026 (UTC)