Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses

WikiProject Viruses Restoration Effort!
Welcome to WikiProject Viruses, This wikiproject has become inactive, and we are currently looking for new members to assist in restoring it, why not join us and add you name to our list of participants

News[edit]

  • The 2022 ICTV taxonomy was ratified in March 2023

Aims[edit]

This WikiProject aims to help organise and contribute to the growing collection of articles about biological viruses. This can be achieved by:

  • Using consistent nomenclature and orthography in naming viruses
  • Including taxoboxes on all virus articles
  • Adding information to existing articles
  • Validating information and seeking references
  • Placing articles in correct categories
  • Identifying articles in need of work
  • Organising information as clear and easy to read as possible

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Defunct(ish) Pages[edit]

FAQ[edit]

1) I'm not a scientist, can I help?

Absolutely! If you have an artistic flair, you could clean up a messy page or create a new template. You could also help to proof-read edits to give scientists feedback on how easy their writing is to understand from a layman's point of view. You could tag messy articles for the project, identify new stubs or even just spread the word about this WikiProject!

2) How can I get involved?

If you feel like participating in this WikiProject, please sign your name over at the members page and check out the Open Tasks to be completed.

3) At what level is it worth having a separate Wikipedia article for a particular virus?

Simply put, any level you like. If we write individual articles for all the viruses known to man, it may take a while; However, if you feel like writing an article about some particularly obscure virus that most people have never even heard of, go for it! The more the merrier :-) As a general guideline though, combine several species or subspecies into a single article when there isn't enough text to make more than short, unsatisfying stubs otherwise. If the article grows large enough to deserve splitting, that can always be done later. It's always a good idea to avoid creating articles that are doomed to be stubs.

4) What about eradicated viruses?

Like smallpox? Sure, why not! There seems to be no reason to exclude any viruses as long as somebody's willing to write an article for it.

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WikiProject Viruses


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Redirects: WP:Virus
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Project template: {{WikiProject Viruses}}
Member userbox: {{User WikiProject Viruses}}
Barnstar: {{The Virus Barnstar}}
WikiProject Pages

Main Page - Discussion
Left panel - Discussion
Right panel - Discussion
Newsletter - Discussion
Statistics - Discussion
Open Tasks - Discussion
Guidelines - Discussion
Assessment - Discussion
Templates - Discussion
Popular pages - Discussion
Recognized Content - Discussion

Viruses in Sister projects
Commons Media - Commons
Wiktionary Definitions - Wiktionary
Wikibooks Textbooks - Wikibooks
Wikiquote Quotations - Wikiquote
Wikisource Source texts - Wikisource
Wikispecies Taxonomy - Wikispecies
Wikinews News - Wikinews
Virus articles Trophy case
SARS 20 December 2004
HIV/AIDS 15 June 2006
Influenza 1 January 2007
Polio 22 August 2008
Macfarlane Burnet 6 January 2009
Virus 5 October 2009
Dengue fever 5 August 2011
RNA interference 25 November 2011
Rotavirus 7 April 2008
Social history of viruses 18 August 2013
Introduction to viruses 21 October 2012
27 March 2020

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