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.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Related WikiProjects 3 To do 4 Requests 5 Departments 6 Category maintenance 7 Participants

[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
  • New: WikiProject Genetics
• Potential projects or work groups:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal behavior (ethology)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Developmental biology.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservation biology
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Paleontology

[edit] To do

• Improve this page and make it more useful for biology editors
• Advertise the existence of this project

[edit] Requests

• Article requests
• Photo 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
• --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 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.