Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology

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 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: WikiProject Science
 * Daughter projects: See Category:WikiProject Biology
 * Potential projects:
 * WikiProject Genetics
 * WikiProject Animals (zoology)
 * WikiProject Animal behavior (ethology)
 * WikiProject Developmental biology.
 * WikiProject Conservation biology
 * WikiProject Paleontology

To do

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

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 - with almost 50 subcategories, plus over 460 articles, this category is massively overfilled.
 * 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.
 * - 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
 * Clicketyclack 14:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 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)

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