Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Welcome to WikiProject Biology, a common forum for discussing biology-related editing issues and guidelines. Join the discussion.

[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))

[edit] Participants

Members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Biology}} to their userpages.

Ragesoss (talk · contribs) - history of biology, portal maintenance
--Kk rou ni 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 40_talk 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)
— Lord Shivan («T»|«C») 20:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC) - Biology student.
Tyrol5 (talk) 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC) - Biology and microbiology of the lungs and lung diseases specifically.
Acullum 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC) - Physiology and evolutionary biology, plus interests in other areas.
Ernstblumberg 23:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Nanowolf (talk) 02:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC) - MIT bioengineer.
Bueller 007 (talk) 04:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC) - evolutionary biology and population genetics