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 8 14 7 18 47 B 36 56 55 105 6 258 C 22 99 318 800 36 1,275 Start 6 77 357 1,656 87 2,183 Stub 11 116 11,733 2 30 11,892 List 3 5 12 43 1 4 68 Category 1,036 1,036 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 19 459 774 1,255 Template 1,776 1,776 NA 3 3 Other 1 16 17 Assessed 80 271 884 14,814 3,691 163 19,903 Unassessed 1 1 38 40 Total 81 271 884 14,815 3,691 201 19,943 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 88,124 Ω = 5.63
Microbiology articles by quality log December 8, 2025 Renamed Draft:Amycolatopsis mongoliensis renamed to Amycolatopsis mongoliensis. December 7, 2025 Reassessed Hepatitis B virus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) December 6, 2025 Renamed Amycolatopsis carbonis renamed to Amycolatopsis carbonis. December 5, 2025 Renamed Anaeromonadea renamed to Preaxostyla. Reassessed Aerococcus vaginalis (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Enrique Monte (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t) Ferirhizobium (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Preaxostyla (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:Sarah E. Evans (talk) removed. December 4, 2025 Assessed Aerococcus vaginalis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) December 3, 2025 Renamed Desulfococcus oleovorans renamed to Desulfosudis oleivorans. Desulfovibrio acrylicus renamed to Halodesulfovibrio aestuarii. Desulfovibrio gabonensis renamed to Oceanidesulfovibrio gabonensis. Filibacter limicola renamed to Sporosarcina limicola. Reassessed Legionella pneumophila (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Desulfosudis oleivorans (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Halodesulfovibrio aestuarii (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Janelia veilia (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Oceanidesulfovibrio gabonensis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Sporosarcina limicola (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) December 2, 2025 Assessed Pseudoglutamicibacter (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Template:Taxonomy/Disparia (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as 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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• 01 Nov 2025 – History of penicillin (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 03 Nov 2025 – Escherichia coli (talk · edit · hist) nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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• 27 Nov 2025 – Anaeromonadea (talk · edit · hist) move request to Preaxostyla by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Preaxostyla (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 04 Dec 2025; see discussion
• 11 Nov 2025 – Collodictyonidae (talk · edit · hist) move request to Diphylleidae by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Diphylleidae (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 18 Nov 2025; see discussion
• 22 Oct 2025 – Soliformovum irregularis (talk · edit · hist) move request to Soliformovum irregulare by Лисан аль-Гаиб (t · c) was moved to Soliformovum irregulare (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 29 Oct 2025; see discussion
• 20 Oct 2025 – Bigyromonada (talk · edit · hist) move request to Bigyromonadea by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Bigyromonad (talk · edit · hist) by Abhiimanyu7 (t · c) on 11 Nov 2025; see discussion
• 10 Oct 2025 – Template:Taxonomy/Methylomirabilacaea (talk · edit · hist) move request to Template:Taxonomy/Methylomirabilia by CheckNineEight (t · c) was no consensus; see discussion

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• 25 Oct 2025 – Ammodiscoidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Ammodiscidae by Plantdrew (t · c) was closed; see discussion

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• 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 Oct 2025 – Draft:Amycolatopsis mongoliensis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eastmain (t · c)
• 21 Nov 2025 – Draft:Mirko Bischofberger (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Quaenuncabibis (t · c) was declined by Superboilles (t · c) on 05 Dec 2025
• 29 Oct 2025 – Draft:Micrarchaeota (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by TG1402 (t · c) was accepted to Micrarchaeota (talk · edit · hist) by TheObsidianGriffon (t · c) on 02 Nov 2025
• 22 Oct 2025 – Draft:Soliformovum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Лисан аль-Гаиб (t · c) was accepted to Soliformovum (talk · edit · hist) by Mgp28 (t · c) on 10 Nov 2025
• 21 Oct 2025 – Draft:Proteintech (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by EHarriet (t · c) was declined by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c) on 24 Oct 2025
• 13 Oct 2025 – Draft:Amycolatopsis nalaikhensis (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Eastmain (t · c) was accepted to Amycolatopsis nalaikhensis (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 14 Oct 2025
• 13 Oct 2025 – Draft:Amycolatopsis carbonis (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Eastmain (t · c) was accepted to Amycolatopsis carbonis (talk · edit · hist) by Monkeysmashingkeyboards (t · c) on 05 Dec 2025
• 06 Oct 2025 – Draft:Monika Weber (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Koczpodan (t · c) was declined by Pythoncoder (t · c) on 28 Oct 2025
• 22 Sep 2025 – Draft:Sanket Goel (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2607:AC80:407:7:79A5:CC5:873:E82C (t · c) was declined by SafariScribe (t · c) on 25 Nov 2025
• 12 Sep 2025 – Draft:Ionized Hydrogen Peroxide (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Brittany Buchman at SteraMist (t · c) was declined by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c) on 24 Oct 2025

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