Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology
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Welcome to WikiProject Biology, a common forum for discussing biology-related editing issues and guidelines. Join the discussion.
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[edit] Overview
There are many active biology WikiProjects. The purpose of this project is to provide common ground for editors in these projects, for seeking advice or requesting help from a broader community of biology editors, and for coordinating the perpetual problem of categorization of biology articles. (For some time, this page has redirect to Portal:Biology, where the talk page served that purpose.)
[edit] Related WikiProjects
- Parent: Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
- Daughter projects: See Category:WikiProject Biology
- Potential projects or work groups:
[edit] To do
- Improve this page and make it more useful for biology editors
- Advertise the existence of this project
[edit] Requests
[edit] Departments
- Assessment - the assessment unit.
[edit] Category maintenance
Many biology categories are in a bad way. They tend to fill up with articles on minor topics that are better placed in subcategories (or sub-subcategories, etc.).
(Statistics compiled June 22, 2007)
- Category:Biology - with 60 subcategories, it could use some reorganization. It also accumulates articles rapidly, so it needs regular attention.
- Category:Anatomy -
over 200 articles(Now down to 42. Clicketyclack 12:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC) ) - Category:Biochemistry -
almost 600 articles; desperately needs trimming(Now down to 18. Clicketyclack 09:26, 16 June 2007 (UTC)) - Category:Botany -
over 250 articles(Now down to 70. Clicketyclack 23:17, 28 June 2007 (UTC)) - Category:Developmental biology - over 200 articles
- Category:Diseases - over 500 articles, urgently needs trimming
- Category:Ecology - 49 subcategories, 275 articles
- Category:Evolutionary biology - over 200 articles
- Category:Genetics - over 300 articles
- Category:Medicine -
over 150 articles, could do with some trimming.(Now down to 47. Clicketyclack 21:33, 25 June 2007 (UTC)) - Category:Molecular biology - over 300 articles
- Category:Neuroscience -
over 200 articles(Now down to 27. Clicketyclack 16:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC))
- Category:Anatomy -
[edit] Participants
Members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Biology}} to their userpages.
- Ragesoss (talk · contribs) - history of biology, portal maintenance
- --Kkrouni 00:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
- John Carter 15:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC) - Kind of out of my depth here in terms of content, but have access to a number of good libraries.
- Supernerd 10
- Jet123 (Talk) 20:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- Bendž|Ť 17:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
- --Boku wa kage 20:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- OcciMoron 20:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
- Delta 40talk 04:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Richard001 23:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC) - Evolution and ecology, behavior, and a little of everything else
- Shyamal 04:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
- Manderson198 (talk) 14:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC) - Biology and chemistry student
- Wisdom89 (T / C) 00:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC) - Graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics.
- Marlith (Talk) 00:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- Razorflame assessment of articles
- Snellios - contributor; specialities genomics, biochemistry, pathology. Second year medical degree, Pathology MA student, Cambridge University, UK
- Tyciol (talk) 03:21, 2 June 2008 (UTC) I intend to become a biologist so I intend to help with this to improve my knowledge and benefit it more as I learn more.
- Pico del Teide (talk) mainly ecology
- Gumbacious (talk) 10:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC) interested in genetics, evolution, biotechnology, bioremediation, and biochemistry.
- Rex shock (talk) 23:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC) interested in phytoplankton and especially diatoms
- Carbonrodney (talk) 09:35, 21 July 2008 (UTC) - anything and everything
- Ian Cheesman interested and knowledgeable in many different areas of biology, more so in the areas of genetics, evolution, ecology, mammals, and fungi.
- Vuerqex
- Myrecovery (talk • contribs • count • global contribs)
- TedPavlic — Control Systems engineer doing bio-inspired work, which includes some contributions to mathematical modeling in behavioral ecology
- Murphy2010 (talk) 22:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- Thompsma - recently revised and wrote most of Conservation Biology and Long-toed salamander Thompsma (talk) 03:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template
The following template "is to be added to the talk pages of all biology-related articles"
{{WikiProject Biology|class=|importance=}}
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