Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology/Collaboration of the Month

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The Article Creation and Improvement Drive is a monthly collaboration to improve molecular and cellular biology articles to good or featured article status.

/History - For past winners.

/Removed - For removed nominations.

/Update how-to - For updating the collaboration of the month.

Introduction

To vote or nominate you have to be a registered user with at least one contribution that is not a vote. Any molecular and cellular biology related article may be nominated except:

• Articles that are currently at featured status
• Articles in edit wars

A great place to start is the project worklist, which contains a list of many articles that have been identified as being of interest to the project, as well as their importance and state of completion.

How to nominate

I	Add nomination Copy and paste the following template to the bottom of the list of nominations on this page and fill it out. ===[[Article]]=== ; Support: # ~~~~ ; Comments: * (put your reason for nomination) ~~~~ ---- Under "comments" section put an explanation of what work is needed.
II	Notify After submitting the new nomination, go to the nominated article and put {{MCBnom}}{{to do}} on the top of the article's talk page. (skip {{to do}} if it's already present on the articles talk page)

How to vote

Sign with "# ~~~~" on the end of the list of the article you want to vote for and then update the vote count in the template. You can vote for as many articles as you like.

How the article is selected

Article with most votes on the first day of each month in 00:00 GMT is selected as "The current MCB Article Improvement Drive article". If two articles have same number of votes, the older nominee wins.

The next selection will be on Monday, 01 July 2024 00:00:00 (UTC)

How an article is removed from the list

Articles need one vote per three weeks to stay on the list. If the current date (June 7 2024) exceeds the "stays until" date of that particular article, the article entry is generally removed from this page and moved to page for removed nominations.

Nominations

Zygote

Support

1. ClockworkSoul 18:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
2. - TwoOars 03:14, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
3. ~a (user • talk • contribs) 21:30, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
4. Artephius (talk) 18:14, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• This poor article, important (importance=top) even at the secondary school level, is of a truly poor quality (class=stub). Truly, it needs some love!
• I'd never marry a zygote. It sounds unsexy.Unfree (talk) 03:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

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Phospholipid

Support

1. Artephius (talk) 3:53, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
2. Proquence (talk) 16:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
3. Davebridges (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
4. MrNiceGuy1113 (talk) 20:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Comments

• Phospholipids are very important in many aspects of biology, from the plasma membrane to signaling. This important article (I personnaly believe it should be rated top but its rated high) has very poor graphics, no list of phospholipid classes and does not even describe anything related to phospholipids other than their ampiphatic character. It definitely needs some help to bring it up to high school biology level.
• I do agree. Phospholipids are very important biomolecules. It is surprising to see such an important article having such less information. This needs immediate attention. Proquence (talk) 16:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
• I also agree with the above statements. Phospholipids are a major player in the biochemistry and genetic world. A high school biology level would be sufficient enough for now.

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Photosynthesis

Support

1. Kasper90 (talk) 09:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments

• Really important and intresting article, but at this moment the article is a complete mess. It has got a B status, but it should have C because it really needs a substantial cleanup. This is the same with articles that are related to photosynthesis, like:
  Light reactions, photophosphorylation, dark reactions, Photosystem II, photosystem I, P680, P700
  Kasper90 (talk) 09:30, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

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Genetic code

Support

1. Firefly's luciferase (talk) 04:01, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
2. Boghog (talk) 05:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
3. Emw (talk) 14:30, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
4. --hroest 09:43, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Comments

• I just realized that several articles were recently flaged to be removed from the GA list (see discussion page). This is one of them. All of them could use help from a collaborative approach to remain GA or get this status again, of course. Priorities may be set differently. Thanks. Firefly's luciferase (talk) 04:01, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
• I promoted this article to the COTM of March 2010 due to the current GA reassessment and the support above (thank you already). Feel free to add other articles for April. Thank you all for improving these articles, --Firefly's luciferase (talk) 08:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

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Compartmentalization (biology)

Support

1. Mashin6 (talk) 02:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
2. Davebridges (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
3. Reo ⁺ I do not know how much help I might become (whether I will find the time needed), But it would be nice to drive this one a bit further 20:36, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Comments

• Marked as Top on the importance scale but still only on Stub level. Mashin6 (talk) 02:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
• It might be better to convert this stub into a redirect page and add a new section called "formation" to the cellular compartment article. The nomination could then be transferred to the later article which I would add my support. Boghog (talk) 07:15, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
• I have added merge templates to both articles. Justification for the merger may be found here. Boghog (talk) 21:27, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
• If merged, one is currently labelled as top priority while the other is low priority. I think it could be marked as high (but not top) Davebridges (talk) 02:03, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

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