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!
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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!
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.

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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:
- Split: Mycoplasma
- Stubs: Category:Microbiology stubs, but also... Telonemia, Morganella morganii, Chaetoceros coarctatus, Roseofilum reptotaenium, Rhabdosphaera clavigera
- Other:
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Microbiology articles by quality statics
| Microbiology articles by quality and importance |
| Quality |
Importance |
| Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
NA |
??? |
Total |
FA |
5 |
5 |
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10 |
FM |
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15 |
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15 |
GA |
9 |
14 |
7 |
19 |
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1 |
50 |
| B |
36 |
56 |
57 |
108 |
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6 |
263 |
| C |
22 |
98 |
326 |
836 |
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50 |
1,332 |
| Start |
6 |
77 |
358 |
1,699 |
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99 |
2,239 |
| Stub |
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10 |
115 |
11,692 |
3 |
36 |
11,856 |
| List |
3 |
6 |
13 |
46 |
1 |
4 |
73 |
| Category |
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1,055 |
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1,055 |
| Disambig |
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35 |
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35 |
| File |
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17 |
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17 |
| Portal |
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2 |
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2 |
| Project |
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14 |
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14 |
| Redirect |
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3 |
18 |
472 |
815 |
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1,308 |
| Template |
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4,905 |
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4,905 |
| NA |
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2 |
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2 |
| Other |
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1 |
25 |
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26 |
| Assessed |
81 |
269 |
894 |
14,873 |
6,889 |
196 |
23,202 |
| Unassessed |
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23 |
23 |
| Total |
81 |
269 |
894 |
14,873 |
6,889 |
219 |
23,225 |
| WikiWork factors (?) |
ω = 88,548 |
Ω = 5.62 |
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Microbiology articles by quality log
- Eva Poveda (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Importance. (rev · t)
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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.
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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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