Graham Beards

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I have been an editor and contributor since 8 April 2007, focusing mainly on health and biology-related articles. I have written eight articles that have appeared on the Main Page as Todays' Featured Article. I was an administrator from 2008 to 2022, when I voluntarily relinquished the extra page tabs. I was a Featured Article Candidates' Delegate for four years from 2012 to 2014 and I promoted 502 articles to FA status. In real life, I am a National Health Service microbiologist. My research papers are listed on PubMed here: [1] "Rotavirus vaccination has saved hundreds of thousands of children’s lives from diarrhea" [2]

Featured Article Save Award[edit]

On behalf of the FAR coordinators, thank you, Graham Beards! Your work on Menstrual cycle has allowed the article to retain its featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. You may display this FA star upon your userpage. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 03:58, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

If you contribute to Wikipedia, be prepared to be plagiarised[edit]

The Historical/Evolutionary Cause and Possible Treatment of Pandemic COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, 2019-CORONA VIRUS): World-War III: The Blackout of the Modern World by Neglected Small Infectious Agent

And not only by schoolchildren. This "publication" is copied from several of our articles including Social history of viruses, Introduction to viruses and Influenza.

The most unhelpful comment I have ever received from a FAC reviewer[edit]

Can I be the writing instructor that I am in real life and ask you to try harder?

Here's some excellent advice[edit]

Achieving excellence through featured content

Barnstars[edit]

List of Featured Article Candidates I have promoted[edit]

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status

Your image, File:Phage.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:36, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Some of my other images

Rotaviruses
Demonstrating the wave-like behaviour of photons (in my kitchen)
Neisseria gonorrhoeae in pus from a case of gonorrhoea in a man
Neisseria gonorrhoeae and pus cells in a Gram-stained penile discharge
Gram stained pus from a urethral discharge with intracellular Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Trichomonas vaginalis (Gram stain)
A typical case of aerobic vaginitis (Gram stain)
Aerobic vaginitis; appearance by phase contrast microscopy
Ring forms of Plasmodium falciparum in red blood cells
A malarial parasite, probably Plasmodium vivax, in a red blood cell
Ziehl–Neelsen stain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
A Giemsa-stained blood film from a person with iron-deficiency anemia. This person also had hemoglobin Kenya.
A Giemsa-stained blood film from a person with iron-deficiency anemia (lower magnification)
Blood from a person with beta thalassemia
Whole blood with microfilaria worm, Giemsa stain, from a person with Loa loa
Electron micrograph of a herpesvirus
Bacillus subtilis Gram stain
Trichomonas vaginalis by phase-contrast microscopy
Trichomonas vaginalis by phase-contrast microscopy
Trichomonas vaginalis by phase-contrast microscopy single trophozoite
Trichomonas vaginalis from a human vagina x 400
Trichomonas vaginalis May-Grünwald staining
Trichomonas vaginalis May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining. A barb-like axostyle (left) projects opposite the four-flagella bundle.
Trichomonas May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining
Pthirus pubis, crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood.
Crab louse
Monocytes, a type of white blood cell involved in immunity
Electron micrograph of adenovirus and adeno-associated virus
Papilloma virus
Red blood cells in sickle cell anaemia
Candida albicans Gram stain
Candida albicans Gram stain
Candida spores in a vaginal swab. (Gram stain)
Spores and pseudohyphae of Candida albicans in a vaginal swab (Gram stain)
Vaginal swab wet mount of Candida albicans (phase contrast)
Gram-stained pus from a urethral discharge showing Gram-negative, intracellular diplococci
The bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae in pus (Gram stain)
Another case of gonorrhoea (Gram-stain)
Giant platelets in a person with immune thrombocytopenia pupura. (Blood film Giemsa stain)
Agar diffusion antibiotic sensitivity testing
Antibiotic resistance tests: Bacteria are streaked on dishes with white disks, each impregnated with a different antibiotic.
Electron micrograph of EDIM - the rotavirus that infects mice
Orf virus
Electron micrograph of three cowpox virus particles
Smallpox virus
Mumps virus
A plant rhabdovirus
Bacteriophages
Adenoviruses
A computer reconstruction based on cryo-electron micrographs of a rotavirus particle (A) and a rotavirus particle reacted with a monoclonal antibody (B)
Gram stain of lactobacilli and squamous epithelial cells in vaginal swab
Gram stain showing normal flora and the bacteria seen in bacterial vaginosis
Gram-stain of Gram-positive streptococci surrounded by pus cells from and infected cut on a finger
Phase contrast microscopy of clue cells in a vaginal swab
Trypanosoma cruzi in blood Giemsa stain
Coronaviruses
A Kleihauer–Betke test used to measure the amount of fetal hemoglobin transferred from a fetus to a mother's bloodstream.
Noroviruses
Caesium chloride (CsCl) solution and two morphological types of rotavirus. Following centrifugation at 100g a density gradient forms in the CsCl solution and the virus particles separate according to their densities. The tube is 10cm tall. The viruses are the two "milky" zones close together.
Neutrophils, a type of white blood cell
Cryptococcus neoformans a pathogenic yeast
Horse torovirus
A culture of salmonella bacteria
Torovirus in human faeces
Electron micrograph of molluscum contagiosum virus
Scanning electron micrograph of Actinomyces israelii (false colour)
Electron micrograph of Parvovirus B19
Haemophilus influenzae requires X and V factors for growth. In this culture, Haemophilus has only grown around the paper disc that has been impregnated with X and V factors. No bacterial growth is seen around the discs that only contain either X or V factor.
The cytophathic effect of Varicella zoster virus on cells in cultures
Red blood cells as seen by darkfield microscopy x 1000
Blood coagulation pathways in vivo showing the central role played by thrombin
Ward were the last case of smallpox was seen in Birmingham, UK
Ward were the last case of smallpox was seen in Birmingham, UK
Mpox lesions on a penis
The tongue of a child showing the signs of scarlet fever caused by Lancefield group A streptococci
Staphylococcus aureus (Gram stain
Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria in a pus cell

	The Half Million Award
	For your contributions to bring Menstrual cycle (estimated annual readership: 718,200) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:41, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

		The Million Award
		For your contributions to bring Virus (estimated annual readership: 1,453,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea. Bacteriophages are among the most common and diverse entities in the biosphere, found wherever bacteria are present. Early evidence of their existence came when the English bacteriologist Ernest Hanbury Hankin reported in 1896 that something in the waters of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India had a marked antibacterial action against cholera, but was so minute that it could pass through a very fine porcelain filter.

This picture is a transmission electron micrograph at approximately 200,000× magnification, showing numerous bacteriophages attached to the exterior of a bacterium's cell wall.Photograph credit: Graham Beards

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