Portal talk:Biology

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Date	Process	Result
August 10, 2006	Featured portal candidate	Promoted
April 27, 2011	Featured portal review	Kept

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Biology

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Status report from the Portals WikiProject[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.

Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future.

As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.

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Main Question on Biology[edit]

The main question on Biology is:

a. What is life.
b. What is to be alive.
c.
Cloud forest (talk) 19:00, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coatrack article[edit]

I came across the article Pyruvate cycling earlier today. The article as it stands is almost impossible for someone well versed in the area to comprehend, and it appears to simply be a WP:COATRACK for a load of papers. It doesn't seem like a legit article at this point. I'm sure the topic is legit, but the article is nowhere near Wikipedia standards. Can someone more versed in this take a look as I'll only delete all the further reading and coatrack elements. Cheers. Canterbury Tail talk 11:50, 3 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What species is shown ?[edit]

Extended content

Here What species is shown ? 2003:6:13D3:F133:615D:ED00:9E14:2CA4 (talk) 21:18, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is a question better suited for the science reference desk. —⁠andrybak (talk) 01:30, 10 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Revitalise the biology portal?[edit]

Should we keep editing this portal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan busse (talk • contribs) 19:00, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. See the portal's Revision history for improvements that were made today. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:54, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid it's flogging a dead horse. Websites need portals when other navigation mechanisms are lacking; but we have 1) Wikilinks 2) Main and Further links 3) See also sections 4) Navbars, navboxes 5) Categories 6) WikiProjects 7) probably several other mechanisms I've forgotten to mention. A portal basically just rehashes existing content, and if I was to be unkind I'd say "less well". We don't need'em, specially in a very well-linked area like bio. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:19, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

While you're entitled to your opinion, many others feel differently than you do about portals. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:39, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]