Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] How to nominate

===[[Article]]===
{{MCB CoM|start=March 30, 2007|votes=1}}

; Support:
# ~~~~

; Comments:
* (put your reason for nomination) ~~~~

{{MCBnom}}{{to do}}

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 Sunday, 01 April 2007 00:00:00 (UTC)

[edit] How an article is removed from the list

Articles need one vote per two weeks to stay on the list. If the current date (March 30, 2007) exceeds the "stays until" date of that particular article, the article entry is removed from this page and moved to page for removed nominations.

[edit] Nominations

[edit] RNA polymerase

10 votes. Nominated November 30, 2006; needs at least 11 votes by April 19, 2007

Support

1. Opabinia regalis 03:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
2. ClockworkSoul 06:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
3. Keesiewonder 11:01, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
4. M&NCenarius 02:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
5. Artman40 19:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
6. Parker007 00:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
7. MarcoTolo 04:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
8. ComCC 04:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
9. tameeria 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
10. Geoking66 02:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Hope no one minds a repeat nomination :) I didn't see this one last time and would absolutely have supported, and as the subject of the chemistry Nobel this should be better than it is. Opabinia regalis 03:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
• Couldn't agree more. It's a shame I've been in the lab every night until midnight, because I sure would love to help on this too. – ClockworkSoul 06:44, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thymocyte

4 votes. Nominated December 10, 2006; needs at least 5 votes by February 4, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Sad mouse 23:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
2. ClockworkSoul 06:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
3. Opabinia regalis 06:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
4. Antibody2000 00:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• T cells are essential for immunity against pathogens and cancer, and drive autoimmunity. Yet absolutely nothing was written about the development of T cells in the thymocyte article. I spent quite a while writing the article, but it would be great to get others to help on it to make this essential immunology topic a featured article. Sad mouse 23:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
• Also, most of the collaborations so far have been molecular, so it would be nice to have a cellular topic. Sad mouse 01:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cell (biology)

8 votes. Nominated December 22, 2006; needs at least 9 votes by April 13, 2007

Support

1. WS 00:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
2. ClockworkSoul 19:33, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
3. M&NCenarius 18:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
4. Reo ^ON | +++ 15:15, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
5. Artman40 12:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
6. GAThrawn22 18:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
7. Jaenop 23:20, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
8. tameeria 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
9. Daniel5127 | Talk 03:02, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• With cell nucleus being featured now, I think this one deserves to be featured article quality as well. WS 00:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
  • It's not really a bad article, but it definitely needs some work. – ClockworkSoul 19:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RNA

8 votes. Nominated January 2, 2007; needs at least 9 votes by April 24, 2007

Support

1. Artman40 07:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
2. Reo ^ON | +++ 15:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
3. M&NCenarius 02:10, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
4. GAThrawn22 18:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
5. Scientizzle 03:14, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
6. Seb951 03:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
7. tameeria 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
8. Nirajrm ^{talk ||| sign plz!} 20:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Article is too short and disorganized compared to DNA Artman40 07:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

• This is more of a basic article and we need to make our base solid!!! --Nirajrm ^{talk ||| sign plz!} 20:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replisome

1 vote. Nominated January 11, 2007; needs at least 2 votes by January 25, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. Artman40 18:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• A very important protein complex where DNA is doubled. Article is extremely unorganized at the moment Artman40 18:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DNA replication

4 votes. Nominated March 6, 2007; needs at least 5 votes by May 1, 2007

Support

1. tameeria 00:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
2. Guelphie85 13:15, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
3. GAThrawn22 00:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
4. Adenosine^talk 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Daniel5127 | Talk 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• Nominating this article as it is about an important mechanism taught in high school and in need of some work. It has been tagged as needing expert attention, not citing its references, sections requiring cleanup, in need of translation into plainer English, and I've received a review request on my talk page. tameeria 00:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Translation into plainer english, some additional information in sections concerning viral and archaeal DNA replication, checkpoints in DNA replication is needed - Joe # Guelphie85 13:19, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
• Very important article - should be FA GAThrawn22 00:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
• I think this article has to be especially simple and understandable. I don't think experts in the field would search for DNA replication for answers; they'd look up polymerase, or Okazaki fragments. Adenosine^talk 09:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
• Per comments above. This article is extremely important articles about DNA. And also, needs to be FA. Daniel5127 | Talk 03:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cell cycle

1 vote. Nominated March 15, 2007; needs at least 2 votes by March 29, 2007 Overdue

Support

1. omes 16:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Comments

• This is a very important subject in cell biology. The article contains some errors and should be worked on. omes 16:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)