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Missing info on coinfections including potential issues[edit]

See "Missing info on "hybrid viral particles" and other (potential) issues from coinfections". This doesn't only relate to the Coinfection article. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:20, 7 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource[edit]

National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource looks like it could be an exceptionally useful article to Wikipedia editors (e.g., to help figure out whether a source is reliable). If anyone knows something about this subject, the article could use some attention. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:08, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The List provided here does neither follow NCBI Taxonomy nor LPSN. It looks very like GTDB instead:

E. g. there is a phylum Asgardarchaeota with class Lokiarchaeia comprising Lokiarchaeales and Helarchaeales, but not a phylum Lokiarchaeota. Besides of the fact that the list is worthless due to invalid reference, this rises further problems as follows:

Lokiarchaeaceae[edit]

"Lokiarchaeaceae " could not be veryfied anywehere, even not in GTDB. There is no reference provided for "Lokiarchaeaceae" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016. Is Lokiarchaeaceae eqal to GTDB-family MK-D1? For a discussion of this and the question if "Lokiarchaeaceae" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016 might be equal to GTDB family MK-D1 see Talk:Lokiarchaeota#2 species cultivated now.

A Google lookup returned just hits from russian server in chinese that wanted me to input my creditcard dates. Please find a serious source for
"Lokiarchaeaceae" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016

Sigynarchaeales[edit]

Order "Sigynarchaeales" belongs to pyhlum Sigynarchaeaota (strain SQRJ_234) according to LPSN. This clade is not known to NCBI taxonomy. There is no relation to Lokiarchaota/Lokiarchaeia according to the rfrerenced soureces. Please could anyone fix this? Thanks.

--Ernsts (talk) 07:55, 9 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Might be a good idea to ping Videsh Ramsahai and throw on some magic template to archive this thing to Talk:List of Archaea genera.
  • The closest I got for Vanwonterghem was a bunch of "Verstraetearchaeota". That's weird.
  • "Sigynarchaeaota" is shown as sister to Lokiarchaeota in doi:10.1007/s11427-021-1969-6, one of the sources currently provided. I think someone decided that the GTDB Loki is "Lokiarchaeales", so the sister must also become an order? The assemblies are a little too new for GTDB release 214.
Artoria2e5 🌉 15:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Project-independent quality assessments[edit]

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

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However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:26, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bacteria not validly published[edit]

Wikipedia has many articles on bacteria that are not validly published. There is a deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gabonia for 6 of them. I've started a thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Bacteria not validly published for a broader discussion about which, if any, bacteria not validly published should have articles. Plantdrew (talk) 19:33, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPathtalk 01:56, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]