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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 13 7 18 47 B 37 54 57 100 6 254 C 21 101 310 785 27 1,244 Start 6 80 356 1,587 75 2,104 Stub 11 116 11,693 1 23 11,844 List 3 5 12 42 1 4 67 Category 1,014 1,014 Disambig 35 35 File 17 17 Portal 2 2 Project 14 14 Redirect 3 19 468 716 1,206 Template 1,781 1,781 NA 6 6 Other 18 18 Assessed 81 272 877 14,693 3,620 135 19,678 Unassessed 4 1 54 59 Total 81 272 877 14,697 3,621 189 19,737 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 87,416 Ω = 5.64
Microbiology articles by quality log August 31, 2025 Renamed Template:Alveolata renamed to Template:Alveolate. Reassessed Category:Amoebozoan orders (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Template:Alveolate (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) August 30, 2025 Renamed Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile renamed to Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum. Assessed Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t) Template:Chryseobacterium-stub (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Category:Chryseobacterium stubs (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Draft:Ionized Hydrogen Peroxide (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) August 28, 2025 Reassessed Rhadinovirus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Rhizidiovirus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) August 27, 2025 Assessed Category:Amoebozoa genera (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Category:Arcellinida genera (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) August 26, 2025 Renamed Gut Microbes (journal) renamed to Gut Microbes. Reassessed Fidelibacter (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Assessed Gut Microbes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) August 25, 2025 Renamed Gut Microbes renamed to Gut Microbes (journal). Reassessed Lars Schaade (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Olaf Schneewind (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t) Removed Draft:P'ng LOKE (talk) removed.
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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. Microbiology Unassessed This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microbiology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Microbiology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

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Categories for discussion

• 29 Jun 2025 – Category:Lactovum (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Tyroxin (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 16 Aug 2025 – Sphingoterrabacterium (talk · edit · hist) →Sphingobacteriaceae was RfDed by Jako96 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 22 Jul 2025 – History of penicillin (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 05 Aug 2025 – Asgard (Archaea) (talk · edit · hist) move request to Asgard archaea by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Asgard archaea (talk · edit · hist) by Bensci54 (t · c) on 12 Aug 2025; see discussion
• 13 Jul 2025 – Naegleriasis (talk · edit · hist) move request to Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis by Cyrobyte (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 07 Jun 2025 – Candidatus Melainobacteriota (talk · edit · hist) move request to Melainabacteria by Jako96 (t · c) was moved to Vampirovibrionophyceae (talk · edit · hist) by Pppery (t · c) on 06 Jul 2025; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 29 Aug 2025 – Hyperthermophile (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Thermophile by Tenshi Hinanawi (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Jul 2025 – Sodaliphilus pleomorphus (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Sodaliphilus by William Avery (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 09 Jul 2025 – 2-Aminoadipic-2-oxoadipic aciduria (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Alpha-aminoadipic and alpha-ketoadipic aciduria by Abvdj (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 06 Jul 2025 – Floccifex porci (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Floccifex by William Avery (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 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
• 16 Oct 2021 – Tetrahymena (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CycoMa (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 27 Aug 2025 – Draft:Ionized Hydrogen Peroxide (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Brittany Buchman at SteraMist (t · c)
• 21 Aug 2025 – Draft:Ian Paulsen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ss6928 (t · c)
• 19 Aug 2025 – Draft:Mary Loretta Dardis Noguchi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Treponemapandemonium (t · c)
• 21 Aug 2025 – Draft:Prasinoderma coloniale (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Rishi88888888 (t · c) was accepted to Prasinoderma coloniale (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 23 Aug 2025
• 19 Aug 2025 – Draft:Gut Microbes (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 140.180.240.253 (t · c) was moved to Gut Microbes (talk · edit · hist) by Cre-Lox-n-Load (t · c) on 23 Aug 2025
• 13 Aug 2025 – Draft:Variovorax durovernensis (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Joeman123Pokkyman (t · c) was accepted to Variovorax durovernensis (talk · edit · hist) by Stuartyeates (t · c) on 14 Aug 2025
• 08 Jul 2025 – Draft:Bifidobacterium animalis subspecies lactis (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Ilh48 (t · c) was accepted to Bifidobacterium animalis subspecies lactis (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 13 Jul 2025
• 30 Jun 2025 – Draft:Sphingobacterium spiritivorum (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Kasibee67 (t · c) was moved to Sphingobacterium spiritivorum (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 06 Jul 2025
• undated – Draft:Subulatomonas tetraspora (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was accepted to Subulatomonas (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 18 Aug 2025

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