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

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.)

Related WikiProjects

• Parent: Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
• Daughter projects: See Category:WikiProject Biology
  • New:
  • WikiProject Genetics
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Paleontology
• Potential projects or work groups:
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Reproduction
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Developmental biology
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservation biology
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal behavior (ethology)

To do

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

Requests

• Article requests
• Photo requests

Departments

• Assessment - the assessment unit.

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))

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.
• 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

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