Template:WikiProject Medicine/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Template:WikiProject Medicine.
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

This template is used on approximately 73,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This is the talk page banner for Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine.

Scope of the project

WikiProject Medicine supports articles on diseases and medical conditions in humans. It often supports articles on medications, medical treatments, healthcare occupations, and medical education.

Please do not spam this banner to the talk page of articles with remote connections to medicine: This project does not support the medicalization of everyday life. If you place this banner on an article and it is removed by a member of the project, please do not re-add the banner. This WikiProject reserves the right to define its own scope.

Usage

Please note: This template should be transcluded as {{WikiProject Medicine}} and not substituted, because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the Project's talk pages without having to edit tens of thousands of pages. Many of these parameters place the talk page of the article into an appropriate category.

WPMED may be used in place of WikiProject Medicine.

Place this template on the talk page of medical articles.

Basic usage

The class and importance parameters are mandatory but the values may initially be blank.

{{WikiProject Medicine
|class= <!--Start, Stub, etc. see Assessment note below--> 
|importance= <!--see Importance scale note below -->
}}

Alternately, WPMED may be used in place of WikiProject Medicine.

{{WPMED
|class= <!--Start, Stub, etc. see Assessment note below--> 
|importance= <!--see Importance scale note below -->
}}

Extended usage

The full syntax is below. Again, WPMED may be used in place of WikiProject Medicine.

{{WikiProject Medicine
|class = 
|importance =
|cardiology = 
|cardiology-imp = 
|dermatology = 
|dermatology-imp = 
|emergency = 
|emergency-imp = 
|gastroenterology = 
|gastroenterology-imp = 
|genetics = 
|genetics-imp = 
|hemonc = 
|hemonc-imp = 
|nephrology = 
|nephrology-imp = 
|neurology = 
|neurology-imp = 
|ophthalmology = 
|ophthalmology-imp =
|pathology = 
|pathology-imp = 
|psychiatry = 
|psychiatry-imp = 
|pulmonology = 
|pulmonology-imp = 
|radiology = 
|radiology-imp = 
|reproductive = 
|reproductive-imp =
|society =
|society-imp =
|toxicology = 
|toxicology-imp = 
|translation = 
|translation-imp = 
|selected =  
|dyk = 
|MCOTM =
|listas = 
|needs-image = 
|needs-infobox = 
}}

Parameters

Required parameters

|class= Assessed class of the article (FA, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, FL, List, Category, Disambig, FM, File, Portal, Project, Redirect, Template, NA, Unassessed).
|importance= Assessed importance of the article (Top, High, Mid, Low, NA, Unknown)

Requests

needs-image – set |needs-image=yes to request that a picture or pictures be included in the article to improve its quality.
- This parameter populates Category:Wikipedia requested images of medical subjects.
needs-infobox – set |needs-infobox=yes if the article needs an infobox. Remember that infoboxes are not suitable for all articles, and can overwhelm short articles.
- This parameter populates Category:Medicine articles needing infoboxes.

Work groups

|cardiology=yes (assigns articles to the Cardiology task force)
- |cardiology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within cardiology
|dermatology=yes (assigns articles to the Dermatology task force)
- |dermatology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within dermatology, defaults to importance of article to WPMED
|emergency=yes (assigns articles to the Emergency medicine and EMS task force)
- |emergency-imp= Assessed importance of the article within emergency medicine and EMS
|gastroenterology=yes (assigns articles to the Gastroenterology task force)
- |gastroenterology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within gastroenterology
|genetics=yes (assigns articles to the Medical genetics task force)
- |genetics-imp= Assessed importance of the article within medical genetics
|hemonc=yes (assigns articles to the Hematology-oncology task force)
- |hemonc-imp= Assessed importance of the article within hematology-oncology
|nephrology=yes (assigns articles to the Nephrology task force)
- |nephrology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within nephrology
|neurology=yes (assigns articles to the Neurology task force)
- |neurology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within neurology
|ophthalmology=yes (assigns articles to the Ophthalmology task force)
- |ophthalmology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within ophthalmology
|pathology=yes (assigns articles to the Pathology task force)
- |pathology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within pathology
|psychiatry=yes (assigns articles to the Psychiatry task force)
- |psychiatry-imp= Assessed importance of the article within psychiatry
|pulmonology=yes (assigns articles to the Pulmonology task force)
- |pulmonology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within pulmonology
|radiology=yes (assigns articles to the Radiology task force)
- |radiology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within radiology
|reproductive=yes (assigns articles to the Reproductive medicine task force)
- |reproductive-imp= Assessed importance of the article within reproductive medicine, defaults to importance of article to WPMED
|society=yes (assigns articles to the Society and medicine task force)
- |society-imp= Assessed importance of the article to society and medicine, defaults to importance of article to WPMED
|toxicology=yes (assigns articles to the Toxicology task force)
- |toxicology-imp= Assessed importance of the article within toxicology, defaults to importance of article to WPMED
|translation=yes (assigns articles to the Translation task force)
- |translation-imp= Assessed importance of the article within translation, defaults to importance of article to WPMED

Assessment

This project participates in the WP:1.0 assessment program.

Quality scale

|class= Options are FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, List, Category, Disambig, Template or NA. If left blank, this will default to Unassessed. For descriptions of the options, information, and guidelines for assessing an article, or to request reconsideration of an article's assessment or the removal of a banner from an article, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Assessment.
- This parameter populates the following categories: Category:FA-Class medicine articles; Category:FL-Class medicine articles; Category:A-Class medicine articles; Category:GA-Class medicine articles; Category:B-Class medicine articles; Category:C-Class medicine articles; Category:Start-Class medicine articles; Category:Stub-Class medicine articles; Category:List-Class medicine articles; Category:Category-Class medicine articles; Category:Disambig-Class medicine articles; Category:Template-Class medicine articles; Category:NA-Class medicine articles; and Category:Unassessed medicine articles.

Importance scale

|importance= Options are Top, High, Mid, Low, and NA. If left blank, this will default to Unknown. For descriptions of the options, information, and guidelines for rating an article's importance, please see this WikiProject's importance scale.
- This parameter populates the following categories: Category:Top-importance medicine articles; Category:High-importance medicine articles; Category:Mid-importance medicine articles; Category:Low-importance medicine articles; Category:NA-importance medicine articles; and Category:Unknown-importance medicine articles.

Special pages

This project does not normally tag the talk pages of redirect pages. Redirects that have been categorized because they are well-known alternative names for a medical condition may be tagged. If a redirect needs to be tagged, please immediately set the parameters to: | class=Redirect | importance=NA

Portal elements

|selected=yes (article is a selected article on Portal:Medicine)
|dyk=yes (a fact from the article appears on the Portal:Medicine/Did you know section on Portal:Medicine)

Collaboration

|MCOTM=prev (article was a previous Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Collaboration of the Month)
|MCOTM=nom (article is a current Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Collaboration of the Month nominee)
|MCOTM=cur (article is the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Collaboration of the Month)

Listas

|listas= This parameter, which is the equivalent of the DEFAULTSORT sortkey that should be placed on all medical articles about people, is a sortkey for the article talk page (e.g. for Jonas Salk, |listas=Salk, Jonas, so that the talk page will show up in the S's and not the J's of the various assessment and administrative categories). This is important because it is one source used by those who set DEFAULTSORT on the article; consider also setting the DEFAULTSORT for the article when setting this parameter. For more information about this, please see Wikipedia:Categorization of people#Ordering names in a category.

Redirects

The following pages redirect here and can be used: