Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses

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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

The 2024 ICTV taxonomy was ratified in February 2025.

Aims

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

Parentage

WikiProject Science
- Wikiproject Biology
  - WikiProject Tree of Life
    - WikiProject Microbiology
      - WikiProject Viruses
        WikiProject AIDS
        
        WikiProject COVID-19

Important pages

Root articles

Root categories

Root templates

External links

It is recommended that the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) be used in conjunction with writing up articles. The database contains up-to-date information from the leading source of viral taxonomy.
Statistics table that can be used to search through articles by importance and quality

Defunct(ish) Pages

WP:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Virus articles by quality statistics (most links directly go to User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Virus)
WP:Related WikiProjects/WikiProject Viruses (Reports Bot discontinued, will not update, defunct since mid-2016)
WP:VideoWiki/Coronavirus disease 2019 (VideoWiki)
WP:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Viruses (also by Reports Bot, defunct since mid-2022)

FAQ

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

Project standards

Portal:	Viruses Portal
Shortcuts:	WP:VIRUSES WP:VIRUS
Redirects:	WP:Virus WP:WikiProject Virus
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

Media - Commons

Definitions - Wiktionary

Textbooks - Wikibooks

Quotations - Wikiquote

Source texts - Wikisource

Taxonomy - Wikispecies

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

To-do List

Virus articles by quality log

March 22, 2026

Renamed

Monodnaviria renamed to Floreoviria.
Template:Taxonomy/Microviridae renamed to Template:Taxonomy/Microviricetes.
Template:Taxonomy/Monodnaviria renamed to Template:Taxonomy/Floreoviria.

Reassessed

Microviridae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from High-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Origin of DNA (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Shotokuvirae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from High-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Trapavirae (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from High-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Tubulavirales (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Mid-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Efunaviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Top-Class. (rev · t)
Floreoviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Top-Class. (rev · t)
Pleomoviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Top-Class. (rev · t)
Template:Taxonomy/Efunaviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Template:Taxonomy/Floreoviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Template:Taxonomy/Microviricetes (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Template:Taxonomy/Pleomoviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Template:Taxonomy/Volvereviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Template-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Volvereviria (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Top-Class. (rev · t)

March 19, 2026

Reassessed

Munia coronavirus HKU13 (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

List of seasonal influenza vaccines (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as List-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

March 17, 2026

Reassessed

Jamestown Canyon encephalitis (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)

March 16, 2026

Reassessed

Encephalomyocarditis virus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

Removed

Category:COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey templates (talk) removed.
Draft:The "you are an idiot" virus (talk) removed.

March 15, 2026

Removed

Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States medical cases chart (talk) removed.

Participants

Here is a list of Wikiproject Virus members, together with their comments. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

User name

Talk page

Comments

Joined

A.Ou	Talk	Interested in helping to expand on redlinks in List of viruses	23 January 2007
Ajpolino	talk	Broadly interested in microbiology	10 December 2015
Akifoss	talk	Broadly interested in virology, virus evolution, and virus taxonomy	06 February 2020
Anastronomer	Talk		21 October 2012
Arboviral	Talk	I am an epidemiologist working on a range of arboviruses (viruses transmitted by insects and ticks).	08 May 2014
Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson	Talk		17 October 2012
Arw36	Talk	I am an ecology PhD student interested in adding information for notable wildlife viruses	3 June 2018
Aviationprojecthelper	Talk	I like learning about the different types of viruses and diseases.	6 December 2017
Avilaricardo	Talk	I am a bioinformatics programmer with an interest in viruses.	9 September 2020
Amy	Talk	Also geeky about medical science - future pharmaceutical student, with an interest in treatment of virii. I'm good at collating references, buzz me if you've got a task!	25 February 2010
bellamorbida	Talk	Medical coder, undergrad college student majoring in biology, general geek. Interested in viruses/bacteria in general and adding more ICD-9/10 codes to medical entries.	31 October 2007
bervin61	Talk	Graduate student with interest in bioinformatics. Just started a job with interest in compiling data on viruses, so I'm working to fill in some gaps. Hoping to bring additional attention to the project from other academic sources.	17 February 2015
Bob the Wikipedian	Talk	I know nothing of viruses, but in an effort to rejuvenate the project, I'll see how well I can learn virus taxonomy and help begin structuring the automatic taxobox database for viruses	25 February 2011
Braindamaged	Talk	Molecular biologist, worked on influenza and ready to contribute here.	19 July 2007
ChyranandChloe	Talk	Reston ebolavirus is probably my FA; I'm interested in virology and epidemiology. Give me a list of articles to clean up and I'm there.	06 September 2008
Ciar	Talk	I'm really an immunologist and molecular biologist, but as my work drifts more and more into the world of viruses, I'm happy to help and learn here!	29 May 2007
Clockwork Soul	Talk	Trained as a molecular biologist and research pathologist with research interests in host-pathogen interactions, in particular papillomavirus-induced oncogenesis.	20 January 2009
Curt99	Talk	environmental microbiologist primarily working on viruses in the ocean	15 April 2017
Daniel Mietchen	Talk	biophysicist interested in how open knowledge can help address viral epidemics	23 February 2016
David Ruben	Talk	General Practitioner - happy to help out with general (human) disease aspects of viruses, copyediting, cite.ref implementation and template coding etc	28 October 2006
Delyons13	Talk	Virology PhD student. I have worked on Epstein-Barr virus, hepatitis C virus, yellow fever virus, and human papillomavirus.	5 December 2016
DiverDave	Talk	Anesthesiologist with a background in virology, tropical medicine and biological warfare.	01 May 2010
Domorito	Talk	Interested in the general topic of virology, but don't have a lot of experience, so you'll usually see me adding a sentence or two to stubs or making pages less complicated sounding, mostly behind the scenes stuff.	27 November 2024
Dubhslaine	Talk	Plant Virologist specializing in the characterization of new plant viruses.
DuncanMoore	Talk	BA in molecular and cellular biology, researched oncolytic herpesviruses	24 March 2011
Dutcherh	Talk	Interested in editing the page, Defective Interfering RNA for a course at the University of Michigan	16 October 2014
EarthRise33	Talk	Biomedical microbiology student here, willing to do what's necessary.	19 June 2007
ELLIOTL_UAB	Talk	My research involves viral genomics and evolution. I also participate in establishing viral taxonomy. I am (slowly) trying to update entries that deal with virus classification.	23 July 2008
Enlil Ninlil	Talk	Hay why not, give me something to do and I will do my best.	7 June 2006
Eracathegreat	Talk	Graduate student in plant pathology interested in plant viruses and epidemiology.	05 December 2011
Espresso Addict	Talk	Knowledgeable on HIV & have access to virology texts	17 August 2006
Euclidjd	Talk		08 December 2016
EZULC	Talk	Plant virus researcher	4 December 2025
Francisco Martins	Talk	I am able to translate information from English to Portuguese and vice-versa.	10 February 2020
Freddy Rogan Ramirez	Talk	Experience in DOE analysis and able to translate from English to Spanish and Chinese and vice-versa	15 March 2020
Frazzydee	Talk		19 March 2005
Gaharrison94	Talk	I am a student of biology, and I have some training in microbiology and phytopathology. Hoping to help out where I can.	10 October 2014
Gorton k	Talk	2nd year biochemistry and molecular biology, and cell and developmentlal biology student. Phage! I've done quite a lot to lambda... but it's ongoing.	15 February 2008
Graham Beards	Talk	I am a clinical virologist and have professional expertise with many human viruses.	13 October 2007
grapefruits14	Talk	I am a research scientist with a PhD working with high pathogenic viruses and vaccine development.	03 January 2018
Hannes Röst	Talk	I am a biology student interested in viruses. I also write in the German Wikipedia.	3 November 2009
Harsh	Baat Kijiye(Talk)	Doing my Masters in Biotchnology. We don't have much on viruses, but happy to help! Besides, the whole idea of Reverse Transcriptase is the Uber-Coolest thing.	29 September 2012
Henipa	Talk	Canadian-American virologist. Hanta- and henipavirus biochemistry.	21 November 2020
HiMyNamesHello	Talk		22 January 2022
HueMan1	Talk		6 March 2020
iTippy	Talk	I am a user who is involved in Internet Security. I am also in computer criminal law.	1 April 2009
Jarretinha	Talk	Ph. D. student working with genetics and dynamics of "simple" life forms, including viruses.	31 July 2007
Joelmills	Talk	I've been working for a few weeks on animal viruses. Glad to see this project has been reactivated.	13 June 2006
Joey Joel	Talk	I've been working for the Dutch National Plant Protection Organisation (NPPO), department virology.	11 September 2014
juanTamad	Talk	Former medical journal editor, want to work on history of yellow fever first.	14 June 2015
Jumping cheese	Talk	I'm somewhat knowledgeable regarding viruses, but nowhere near an expert level. I'll work on tagging articles with this wikiproject.	10 December 2006
Keilana	Talk	Molecular biology/pre-med student with a newfound love of viruses. I like weird viruses.	20 October 2015
Kingdon	Talk	Dabble in virus articles here and there (especially plant viruses).	19 July 2009
Liam Skoda	Talk	Medical student, primarily interested in viruses that cause human disease, particularly lyssaviruses and filoviruses.	23 September 2007
LightandDark2000 🌀	User talk:LightandDark2000	Have an interest in viruses. I also have a background in the biological sciences.	1 December 2020
linkthewindow	Talk	High school student, general interest in this area and microbiology in general. Will help where I can	27 June 2008
MadScientistVX	Talk	Undergrad in Pharmaceutical Chemistry/Pre-Medicine; interested in helping out in any way. Starting by trying to fix red-links in List of viruses.	23 Feb 2007
Malke 2010	Talk	Molecular virologist - special interest in hantaviruses	22 May 2013
ManVhv	Talk	Computer scientists with an interest in viruses. Specializing in amateur Herpesviridae systems biology.	3 Jun 2007
Marcosm13	Talk	Interested in the mechanisms that allow viruses to implant their DNA/RNA. Also a member of Molecular & Cellular Biology wikiproject.	23 Apr 2009
MarcoTolo	Talk	Contributor to numerous virology-related articles - probably should have joined long ago.	24 Jul 2007
MatthewHebert	Talk	I am interested in viruses and want to help.	7 Nov 2010
Maxj27	Talk	Geneticistinterested in contributing and expanding upon an article within the virus wikiproject.	28 Apr 2019
Maymers7	Talk	I am interested in contributing and expanding upon an article within the virus wikiproject.	28 Jan 2016
Mikhail's Unieo	Talk	Interested in viruses ever since Coronavirus Pandemic Struck.	27 July 2020
Million Moments	Talk	Plant Pathologist	16 Jan 2007
Mjbailey	Talk	MD/PhD Student	13 Jan 2015
Mysteriumen	Talk	Student of Pharmacy	21 July 2016
mysteryman90	Talk	Taking a biology class. Interested in posting new material being taught.	5 April 2007
Nandini Datta	Talk	I'm a Microbiology student having great interest and knowledge in viruses.	25 January 2019
OcciMoron	Talk	Undergraduate in both Biology and History, with a strong interest in infectious diseases and global health	15 August 2007
Orangemarlin	Talk	Last took a virology class in 1983. Just here to make sure that Homeopathy and urban myths don't show up in articles.	25 May 2007
orkoloko	Talk	Research scientist working on molecular evolution and phylogenetics of animals and pathogens.	27 July 2008
Pecors	Talk	Got interested in rabies and ended up here creating articles for rare viruses.	09 January 2022
PhD Dre	Talk	A panel board reviewer for the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research), Institute of Infection and Immunity.	15 November 2007
Philippe Le Mercier	Talk	Research virologist working on making electronic reviews of all viral proteins, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.	16 Janvier 2009
PrimordialTaco	Talk	12 February 2019
PNSMurthy	Talk	I have an unhealthy addiction to deadly viruses. Am looking forward to expanding this field.	14th of July 2020
Random Nonsense	Talk	I'm a History undergrad with an interest in environmental history, and I thought I might be able to help out in that area. I'll be doing a I research project on rinderpest next year, so I look forward to adding to that article.	2 June 2007
RaptorChief	Talk	Looking forward to helping the virology WikiProject!	2 February 2018
Read-write-services	Talk	Hello, I am a writer and editor with a Diploma in Human Biology. I am interested in Marburg, Ebola and Hantavirus. I would be delighted to help with editing anything.	14 September 2006
RelentlessRouge	Talk	Hello, all. I am far from a Ph.D. or an M.D. but I will definitely attempt to help the virology part of Wikipedia. Cheers!	14 June 2006
Rich Farmbrough	Talk	I write virus stubs on Wikipedia.....	24 June 2014
Reza Rezaei Javan	Talk	Postgraduate student in Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses.	28 July 2014
Sapientia42	Talk		1 January 2015
SaritaMackita	Talk	I like science, but I studied foreign languages... I was originally appalled by the blatant inaccuracy of the Canine Distemper article. I've changed it some, but it still obviously needs a lot of work. Thought I'd also lend a hand with whatever!	18 March 2008
Schu1321	Talk	MD/PhD Student at the University of Minnesota. Beginning 3rd year of program and working for a PhD in Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology.	06 October 2007
Scray	Talk	Most interested in virus evolution and viruses causing human disease.	04 April 2010
Seegene	Talk	Interested in viruses and their life cycle. BVSc in Veterinary medicine, M.Sc on Lyssavirus and PhD on Human Papillomavirus.	06 March 2014
Serephine	Talk	I look forward to cleaning up many of the virus articles ☺ I'm particularly interested in Ebola	13 June 2006
Several Times	Talk	I'm a grad student, especially interested in phages.	01 March 2012
Snellios	Talk	Biochemical virology, epidemiology, virus/host interaction. Medical student MB, Pathology BA	12 May 08
Shibbolethink	Talk	A first year graduate student studying for a PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, completing lab rotations in the Department of Microbiology, specifically interested in the Universal Influenza Vaccine. Particularly interested in the Flu B HA.	10th December 2014
Spawn Man	Talk	Not a scientist, but will do his best!!!	2 November 2005
SpectraValor	Talk	Interested in RNA viruses, especially retroviruses. Although I have heard of DNA!	12 March 2012
Sperber	Talk	Hi there, I'm currently working on my PhD in Virology, and am looking forward to contribute (my special interest is Ebola virus, I work with it since four years)	11 July 2006
spilki	Talk	Veterinarian, MSc in Animal Virology, PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology; interested in animal viruses and general virology	19 July 2007
Stevia_badger	Talk	Undergraduate in both Cellular & Molecular Biology and Biochemistry departments. Happy to help where able.	13 May 2013
Sharma	Talk	I'm currently working on RNA viruses and am looking forward to contribute (my special interest is HCV virus	17 March 2009
TariStar	Talk	Wildlife Science/Zoology student, interest in Bearded Dragon, Working on Agamid Adenovirus 1 as of March 2008.	17 March 2008
Terrycojones	Talk	Working (computationally) on viruses at the University of Cambridge. Happily helping to clean up Wikipedia entries as I learn.	12 June 2013
The Martian-2000	Talk	I am interested in everything about viruses	24 February 2011
Thomas888b	Talk	I am the current coordinator of WikiProject Viruses. I revived the project on 24/02/2011.	24 February 2011
Tim Vickers	Talk	Hi. I'm a molecular biologist and interested in virology.	10 January 2007
TokeTokensen	Talk	Molecular Biology Ph.D candidate, interested in Virology, made account specifically to join project.	29 May 2011
User:Tunafish12 (real)	User talk:Tunafish12 (real)	Viruses are cool. Mainly interested in ones that human pathogens.	6 March 2021
Tyciol	Talk	Hi, I'm a biology student and find viri' potential to help gene therapy appealing.	01 June 2008
Velayinosu	Talk		12 May 2020
ViralQuest	Talk	I, too, am somewhat knowledgeable regarding viruses (primarily plant viruses), but hesitate to use "expert" in the same sentence. Happy to lend a hand in this Viruses WikiProject.	14 June 2007
Vokesk	Talk	MD student.	25 Aug 2015
walternmoss	Talk	Post-doc working on Eptstein-Barr virus non-coding RNAs.	16 November 2013
Watchingeye	Talk	Just about anything that gets my attention	12 September 2007
Webclouddat	Talk	Why am i doing this????	14 August 2023
Wedian	Talk	Hi all. I'm a graduate student in microbiology. Hope to work with you as much as i can.	28 October 2006
wikiwiki1950	Talk	I am a new user looking to join a random Wikiproject. If there are better options, tell me so.	24 November 2006
Xtothel	Talk	Scientist working on viruses	28 February 2013
Yash!	Talk	Interested in medical related topics.	31 January 2016
Yirch	Talk	Love writing species articles, specifying in bacteriophages!	08 July 2022
Zecrah	Talk	Biomedical science student aiming for an immunological/virological career	1 May 2015
খান আল নোমান	Talk		06:09, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
-dero	Talk	Interested in COVID-19 and Other Virus.	8 July 2020

Edits	Article	Rating
44	List of deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic	List
17	COVID-19 vaccine	B
11	Origin of DNA	C
8	Rosalind Franklin	B
5	COVID-19 pandemic in Canada	B
5	Efunaviria	B
5	Measles resurgence in Europe	Start
3	COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria	C
3	COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy	B
3	Common cold	GA
3	Mosquito	GA
3	Paramyxoviridae	C
3	Spillover infection	Start
3	Vaccine	B
3	Volvereviria	B
3	Yellow fever in the Haitian Revolution	Start

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