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Science and Academia Work Group

The Science and Academia Work Group is a working group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles.

Biography (science and academia) articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	10	14	31	77		20	152
FL			1	15		1	17
A		2		2		2	6
GA	22	37	105	271		248	683
B	46	121	343	790		2,295	3,595
C	17	178	864	5,270	3	13,953	20,285
Start		145	1,646	18,336	2	49,795	69,924
Stub	1	25	483	20,274	6	29,935	50,724
List		3	7	173	1	280	464
Category	3		2	5	17,624		17,634
Disambig				4	6		10
File					200		200
Project					12		12
Redirect			5	143	582		730
Template					1,103		1,103
NA			1	3	8		12
Other				21	100		121
Assessed	99	525	3,488	45,384	19,647	96,529	165,672
Unassessed			4	230		2,042	2,276
Total	99	525	3,492	45,614	19,647	98,571	167,948
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 747,261			Ω = 5.14

Related Projects

Since biographies are potentially under the purview of almost all WikiProjects, it is important that we work in tandem with these projects. Also, when seeking collaboration on articles, don't neglect to approach WikiProjects that are part of the geographical region your subject is/was in.

Related Portals

Increase the exposure of our work group by nominating our articles for their Portal FA and DYKs... Specific regional/country portals are listed in that section.

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FA and GA Articles

• FAs:
  • Neil Armstrong
  • List of Nobel laureates in Physics
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• GAs:
  • Tom Kilburn
  • 400+ more
• DYKs:
  • Heather Knight
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• Article requests::
  • Tristan Hayes Lambert, William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. More information at: https://chemistry.cornell.edu/tristan-lambert.
  • Marcel Gagné (field: computing/technical writing, specifically LINUX)
  • Paul A. Wender, professor of chemistry at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Sciences, recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Award, and the eponym of Wender Taxol total synthesis. More information is at http://web.stanford.edu/group/pawender/about-professor-wender.html
  • John H. Werren, Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology at the University of Rochester, leading expert in evolutionary genetics, awarded the Humboldt Prize, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Google Scholar profile. News stories about his research:

References

1. ^ "Fascinating Connections" (PDF). Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
2. ^ "Member Directory". American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
3. ^ "Celebrating Distinction" (PDF). University of Rochester. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
4. ^ "John Werren and Lawrence Tabak Named AAAS Fellows".
5. ^ "One Species' Genome Discovered Inside Another Species' Genome". National Science Foundation.
6. ^ "When Bacteria Transfer Genes to Invertebrates and Spread From There". New York Times.
7. ^ "Genome sequences for wasps will aid pest and disease control, provide new model organism". EurekAlert! (AAAS).

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The general outline and collection has been started, but if you would like to expand and organize your country/region, here's what you do. Right below the page heading for your country/region insert this: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Work groups/Division banner}} and save. This will put a rough outline together for you and then you can edit it to conform to your area. If your project grows large enough where it's taking up a good portion of this page, you should probably move it to a subpage of this page.

You might also want to make a Members section for people to join your specific area!

Any article related to this work group should be marked by adding |s&a-work-group=yes to the {{WPBiography}} project banner at the top of its talk page. This will automatically place it into Category:Science and academia work group articles. Articles can be assessed for priority within this work group by using the |s&a-priority= parameter. See Template:WikiProject Biography/doc for detailed instructions on how to use the banner.

See The Manual of Style for biographies and Biographies of living persons.

1. Oscohe (talk · contribs) - Canadian scientists and academics, with a special interest in people with disabilities.
2. Socialnerd (talk · contribs) - African scientists and academics mostly.
3. Alexander Gieg (talk · contribs) - Mostly philosopher I'm currently studying as an undergraduate Philosophy student in Brazil, or those who I like personally.
4. luke - Interested in physics/physicists especially, but will try and help in mathematicians and other scientists if able. come on people :)
5. Davy p 00:42, 19 November 2006 (UTC) - Natural science, physics by training, currently somewhat rusty in places - still learing wikispeak
6. Lquilter - biographies of scientists, esp women, non-Anglo, non-English speaking. Scientific awards and associations.
7. Macgreco - Brazilian scientists.
8. Bduke - Chemists mostly
9. Shyamal - Biologists mostly
10. Peter G Werner - Mycologists and San Francisco Bay Area scientists
11. DGG 04:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC) - currently involved in patrolling CSD to rescue such articles, and trying to get the originators of the article--who are, alas, generally the people themselves, to improved them.
12. Espresso Addict - biomedical, with a focus on virologists.
13. Macdonald-ross 18:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC) — natural historians & biologists 18th-20thC; evolution.
14. NerdyNSK - all scientists, with a special interest in natural scientists and computer scientists
15. Jimfbleak - Biologists mostly
16. Johnfos - Social scientists and Australian academics
17. Delirium - mainly academics (both scientists and other sorts)
18. Wloveral (talk) 04:45, 27 April 2008 (UTC) - Zoology in Brazil and world entomology
19. Ceramufary - Embryologists, as part of my work on the Embryo Project at Arizona State University.
20. USA2006 -- interested in editing biographies of scholars in the social sciences.
21. Guillaume2303 (talk) 11:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) - neuroscientists and behavior geneticists mostly
22. Punkmorten (talk) Norwegian scientists, mostly social sciences and history.
23. Maias - mainly biologists, including amateur naturalists, and especially those with connections to South East Asia and Australasia
24. Doncorto - mainly psychologists, especially those in developmental, behavioral, education fields.
25. Qwfp (talk) 12:51, 19 January 2011 (UTC) - mostly statisticians
26. Deyyaz 02:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC) - Academics in general
27. Al-Andalusi - Scientists of medieval Islamic civilization.
28. Moray An Par (talk) - Academics from the Philippines
29. Johnsemlak (talk) - Historians
30. kellnerp - Academics I am familiar with. 19 September 2011
31. RockMagnetist (talk · contribs) – Earth scientists and physicists
32. Berton - Biologists mostly
33. Araucana - ecologists, especially American plant ecologists
34. Trevj (talk · contribs) - as an engineer, I'm more likely to edit scientists' biographies than those of others
35. Jpbowen (talk · contribs) – an engineer by training, now a computer scientist, with an interest in the history of science and academic biographies.
36. Maxim Stoyalov
37. Euroflux (talk · contribs) – French & German aerospace engineers, rocket scientists, materials scientists, aerodynamicists, aeroelasticians, nuclear engineers & physicists, economists of innovation, industrial economists,...
38. Ybidzian (talk · contribs) Physics, physicists, academic awards and fellowships, slow light, ultracold states, attitudes towards science
39. DStrassmann (talk · contribs) Economists and other social scientists
40. FeralOink Deceased or elderly mathematicians, physicians, chemists, statisticians and economists who are neglected among Wikipedia biographies, despite notable achievements e.g. Nobel prizes or substantiated discoveries in basic scientific research, especially in an academic milieu.
41. Ben Moore (talk · contribs) — Biologists, especially of the computational persuasion
42. EricEnfermero (talk · contribs) - Mostly within psychology/social science or medicine/nursing/healthcare
43. Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) - Wikipedian in Residence at ORCID; Wikimedian in Residence at Royal Society of Chemistry.
44. Fjarlq (talk · contribs) – Emphasis on computer science, but interested in all
45. Duncan.Hull – Scientists, Technologists, Engineers & Mathematicians (STEM) especially Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS)
46. David Eppstein (talk · contribs) – mainly mathematicians and computer scientists, with an emphasis on improving coverage of underrepresented groups in those areas
47. Joeyvandernaald (talk · contribs) - philosophers (continental philosophy, mostly); sociologists; anthropologists - often New York-based academics
48. Blueclaw (talk · contribs) - computer scientists and mathematicians with notable achievements but minimal coverage, often from underrepresented groups
49. Adh (talk · contribs) - life sciences, maths, physics and engineering
50. Joe Roe (talk · contribs) – mainly archaeologists, also active in academic biography AfDs
51. NoetherianRing (talk · contribs) - mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, physicians, immunologists
52. K.e.coffman (talk · contribs) - academic historians; history writers; other humanities
53. Cypherquest (talk · contribs) - scientists, academics, and beyond
54. AnaSoc (talk · contribs) - women, LGBT, persons of color in academia
55. Enwebb (talk · contribs) - biologists, zoologists, mammalogists
56. McCrowBar (talk · contribs) - physicists, scientists, engineers, nuclear physics, and beyond
57. AugusteBlanqui (talk · contribs) - academics in general
58. frobitz (talk · contribs) - mainly mathematicians, potentially some computer scientists
59. Rohit Goswami UI (talk · contribs) - Computational chemistry and Optics
60. Juan de Bolas (talk · contribs) - mathematicians, physicists and chemists
61. Jmill1806 (talk · contribs) - science and philosophy
62. Yitbe (talk · contribs) - African scientists
63. Econtheory (talk · contribs) - Notable economists without pages
64. MaynardClark (talk · contribs) - Notable bioethicists and Harvard Faculty and administrators with or without pages; academic historians, history writers, and researchers who contributed light to vegetarian practices; other humanities
65. Shari Garland (talk · contribs) - Wide range of translated scientific and academic biographies from a variety of languages.
66. Bibeyjj (talk · contribs) - Article assessments of people related to medicine, anatomy, and psychology.
67. Andrevan (talk · contribs)
68. HarvardStuff (talk · contribs) - academic institutions and organizations and academics. Love working with others to create or improve articles.
69. Wil540 art (talk) 00:47, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
70. Organicstrawberry (talk · contribs) - notable biologists
71. Scientifica^(talk) 6 September 2023. Danish academics and scientists.
72. Ldm1954 (talk · contribs) - general academics of all types/ages, mainly STEM.
73. Rublamb (talk · contribs) - Late 19th and early 20th century geologists, geographers, foresters, engineers, and diplomats
74. RegMonkey (talk) 16:36, 3 November 2023 (UTC) - Women in economics and the social sciencesreply

• {{WikiProject Biography|s&a-work-group=yes|s&a-priority= }} — see #Tagging articles above

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External link templatesedit

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