Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Old 2012

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Welcome to WikiProject Medicine. This project aims to enable Wikipedians to cooperate, organize, make suggestions and share ideas on the improvement of the medicine and health-related articles of Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to join in this endeavor (regardless of medical qualifications!).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our discussion page (also known as the doctors' mess). You can also have a look at some related WikiProjects.

Many suggestions and guidelines have been developed since the project began. A particularly useful collection can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles), which contains a detailed discussion of issues related to writing medicine articles on Wikipedia. However, these are only suggestions: they should help to give us focus, and inspire our contributions, but no one should feel obliged to follow (or even read) them; this WikiProject is not prescriptive. They should not distract anyone wanting to contribute from our main purpose: to write and improve medical articles!

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants (no strings attached!), or just look over the How you can help section below. Also of interest is the (featured) Medicine Portal associated with this project.

We hope you enjoy reading and improving Wikipedia's medical articles,
-The members

Goals

To produce reliable and neutral information on medical conditions, diagnosis and treatment in a readable and standardized format. It aims to deal with these diseases in every context, from molecular biology, symptomatology and diagnosis to therapeutical issues and historical and geopolitical ramifications. To this end, the WikiProject will collaborate with other WikiProjects relating to the health sciences.

How you can help

Collaborate

• Stay in touch. Put this page on your watchlist, along with any task forces that interest you, so you can keep up with announcements and stay in touch with other members.
• Join a task force. If you are interested in a specific topic area, then join one or more of our task forces. Most task forces keep a separate list of their most important projects and would be happy to have a new member!
• Work together. Join in the team effort to improve selected articles in the Collaboration of the Month and the Google Project. Everyone from subject-matter experts to normal readers is welcome!

WikiProject Medicine Collaboration Dashboard
Top priorities	Medicine, Cancer, Disease, Health, Death ... (more core topics or vital articles)
Featured article candidates	None at the moment
Featured list candidates	None at the moment
Featured article review	None at the moment
Featured article removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured list removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured picture candidates	None at the moment
Good article candidates	Animal models of schizophrenia (needs reviewer), Bipolar disorder, Neurotoxin (needs reviewer), Mu wave (needs reviewer), International emergency medicine (needs reviewer), Barend Joseph Stokvis (needs reviewer)
Good article reassessment	None at the moment
Peer review	Circumcision, Bronchitis, Androgenic alopecia, Management of baldness, Mouth ulcer
Active Portals	Medicine
Recently revised Cleanup listing Requested articles Deletions

Other ideas

Would you like to help, but you're not really quite sure what to do? Have an hour free and want to try something different? WikiProject Medicine has many tasks that any editor can do. You don't have to be a physician or have specialized knowledge.

Edit articles

• Adopt a stub! There are thousands of stubby medicine-related articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Categories containing these stub articles are Category:Medicine stubs and Category:Stub-Class medicine articles. Add sources and information, and remove the {{stub}} template when it's no longer a stub.
• Create a new article. Many medicine-related articles have been requested for creation. New articles and significantly expanded stubs qualify for our Missing Article Trophy contest and Wikipedia's Did you know?, so be sure to share your achievements with us.
• Improve existing articles. Some articles want expert attention, but most need help that anyone can provide. Alternatively, choose any article that interests you from our top-importance, high-importance articles, or 500 most popular medicine-related articles. A guideline that applies to our articles is here.
• Add high-quality references. Correct and reliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to be a verifiable source of information for our readers. Adding references is easy with this tool. Just submit the PubMed ID, ISBN, or other identifier, and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between <ref> xxxxx </ref> Alternatively, if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox (2.0+), then Wouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
• Add images. Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of medical subjects.
• Check for retracted papers. See Category:Articles citing retracted publications for articles that may wrongly cite retracted publications.

Work behind the scenes

• Help evaluate articles nominated for deletion. Help identify deletion discussions that relate to medicine. Figure out whether these articles with unclear notability should be deleted.
• Help maintain the Medicine Portal. The maintainers would be happy to tell you what needs to be done.
• Recruit members. Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in medicine to contribute to Wikipedia. Invite good editors to join us. See this section for handy message templates.
• Tag the talk pages of medicine-related articles. Add {{WikiProject Medicine|class= |importance=}}, and assess the article according to our assessment scale. A bot-generated list of new articles that might be medicine-related is here. If you add importScript("User:Fred Gandt/getUnpatrolledOfAlexNewArtBotResultsPages.js"); to your /common.js file, then you can also patrol new articles from that page as well.
• Sort stubs. See the list of specific stub templates. Replacing {{stub}} or {{med-stub}} with a more specific template is very helpful.
• Improve categorization of articles. Several popular Wikipedia categories like Medicine and Category:Diseases and disorders need people to sort articles into more specific subcategories. Tools like HotCat may make this easier.

Fight spam and vandalism

• Remove inappropriate external links. Some medicine-related articles attract inappropriate links, such as internet chat boards and advertisements. You can review the external links in any article, or you can use Special:Linksearch to find articles containing a specific link, such as *.clinicaltrials.gov or *.groups.yahoo.com Details available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
• Check for vandalism in the recent changes to WPMED-related pages, using either this tool or this one.

Project organization

Departments

• The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's medicine articles.
• The Review department focuses on reviewing medicine-related featured articles.

Task forces

Task forces are groups of Wikipedians gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within a WikiProject.

The medicine project is organized into task forces to deal with smaller chunks of medicine as it is a huge topic. All are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.

Welcome to this medicine task force over view page. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the Medicine talk page, the centralized point for discussion, thank you.

• Anaesthesiology (talk)
• Cardiology (talk)
• Dermatology (talk)
• Emergency medicine and EMS (talk)
• Gastroenterology (talk)
• Hematology-oncology (talk)
• Medical genetics (talk)
• Nephrology (talk)
• Neurology (talk)
• Ophthalmology (talk)
• Pathology (talk)
• Psychiatry (talk)
• Pulmonology (talk)
• Radiology (talk)
• Reproductive medicine (talk)
• Society and medicine (talk)
• Toxicology (talk)

To propose a new task force, please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Task forces.

Participants

The full list of project participants is located on a separate subpage. Any interested Wikipedia editor is welcome to join this project. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list.

Templates

Article-related

• {{WPMED}} - Placed on talk pages of medicine-related articles and used to assess articles.
• {{reqphoto|medical subjects}} - Used on talk pages to request that photographs be added to the article.
• {{med-stub}} - Used on stub articles.
• {{Medref}} - Used to indicate an article in need of references.
• {{Medicine}} - The bottom navbox template to be used on articles about broad disciplines of medicine.
• Category:Medicine templates - Contains all templates used on medicine-related articles.

Inline with article text

• {{medical citation needed}} or {{mcn}} - Used after text without a reliable medical source. Generates:
• {{unreliable medical source}} or {{ums}} - Used after text with a questionable medical source. Generates:
• {{primary source-inline}} or {{npsn}} - Used after text that cites a primary source. Generates:

Infoboxes

WP:Infoboxes have been created for a number of article types including:

• Template:Infobox disease for articles on diseases
• Template:Infobox symptom for articles about signs or symptoms
• Template:Interventions infobox for articles pertaining to procedures
• Template:Diagnostic infobox for diagnostic test
• Template:Drugbox for medications
• Template:Drugclassbox for classes of medication

User-related

• Welcome messages (all of these substituted onto a user's talk page):
  • {{subst:MedWelcome}} - Welcome template to greet new Wikipedians and invite them to join WikiProject Medicine.
  • {{subst:MedInvitation}} - Invite for established Wikipedians to join WikiProject Medicine.
  • {{subst:MedGreeting}} - After editor added to participation list.
• {{User WPMed}} - Userbox for members of this WikiProject.
• {{User MedLat}} - Userbox for those who understand Medical Latin (Babel-compatible; just add |MedLat to your Babel template)
• {{subst:The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar}} - You may award the Medicine Barnstar or other relevant awards to those you feel have done superb work in the realm of medicine-related articles.

Showcase

Featured articles

Featured articles are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates before being selected. Articles in bold indicate that the article has been featured on the Main Page on the date noted.

Acute myeloid leukemia	2006-10-08
Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act	2008-01-16
Alzheimer's disease	2008-09-21
Amphetamine	2015-04-03
Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany	2008-06-06
Antioxidant	2007-06-22
Asperger syndrome	2004-04-17
Autism	2005-08-24
Bacteria	2007-01-20
Golding Bird	2012-05-02
Bupropion	2007-12-21
Female genital mutilation	2015-02-06
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	2009-01-06
Chagas disease	2005-07-31
Cholangiocarcinoma	2009-06-08
Coeliac disease	2008-05-18
Dengue fever	2011-08-05
Diffuse panbronchiolitis	2012-01-15
DNA	2007-02-13
DNA repair	2004-09-15
Endometrial cancer	2014-12-09
Genetics	2008-07-12
Helicobacter pylori	2005-03-26
Hepatorenal syndrome	2009-11-29
Hippocrates	2007-06-19
Huntington's disease	2010-02-27
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	2009-08-29
Immune system	2007-03-01
Influenza	2007-01-01
Introduction to viruses	2012-10-21
Samuel Johnson	2009-01-31
Early life of Samuel Johnson	2009-10-18
Keratoconus	2006-06-05
Ketogenic diet	2010-01-17
Linezolid	2009-09-14
Lung cancer	2007-11-18

Major depressive disorder	2009-06-23
Management of multiple sclerosis	2008-1-25
Meningitis	2009-04-02
Menstrual cycle	2005-08-30
Metabolism	2011-09-05
Multiple sclerosis	2005-11-18
Osteochondritis dissecans	2010-08-18
Oxygen	2008-04-14
Oxygen toxicity	2009-08-31
Pancreatic cancer
Parkinson's disease	2011-04-11
Poliomyelitis	2008-08-22
Pulmonary contusion	2008-04-29
Race Against Time (Lewis)	2008-07-24
Reactive attachment disorder	2008-04-20
Rhabdomyolysis	2011-09-20
Rosetta@home	2008-12-01
Rotavirus	2008-04-07
Schizophrenia	2005-10-24
Sertraline	2008-06-06
Social history of viruses
Subarachnoid hemorrhage	2008-10-14
Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi	2007-04-26
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis	2011-06-21
Tourette syndrome
Treatment of multiple sclerosis	2008-01-25
Virus	2009-10-05
Water fluoridation	2009-10-12
Ryan White	2008-08-17
Michael Woodruff	2007-04-26

Featured lists

Featured lists are considered to be the best lists in Wikipedia; they must pass through a review process as featured list candidates before being selected.

• Buchanan Medal
• List of brain tumor patients
• List of cutaneous conditions
• List of medical schools in the United Kingdom
• List of Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine

• List of people with epilepsy
• List of poliomyelitis survivors
• List of signs and symptoms of diving disorders
• Timeline of peptic ulcer disease and Helicobacter pylori
• Timeline of tuberous sclerosis

Other featured content

Types of content other than articles—such as images, portals, sounds, and topics—can also achieve featured content status.

Featured portals

• Portal:Medicine

Articles pertaining to the project

Journal articles

Good articles

Good articles have been evaluated for their quality, but they have not been through the featured article process. For good articles in the biology and medicine category, see Wikipedia:Good_articles/Natural_sciences#Biology_and_medicine.

Related WikiProjects

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science § Health_and_fitness

• Abortion (inactive)
• AIDS (inactive)
• Alternative medicine
• Anatomy
• Biology
• Biophysics
• Cell Signaling (inactive)
• Deaf
• Death
• Disability
• Dentistry (semi-active)
• Dyslexia (inactive)
• First aid (semi-active)
• Genetics

• Health and fitness
• Hospitals
• Microbiology
• Molecular and Cellular Biology
• National Health Service (inactive)
• Neuroscience
• Nursing (inactive)
• Pharmacology
• Podiatry
• Psychology
• Tree of life
• Veterinary medicine (inactive)
• Viruses

Awards

Writing good medical articles can be hard work! Why not reward someone you've seen do some good work in the area? Any editor may present these awards to any person as a reward for and public recognition of good work.

Look in the list of barnstars and personal user awards at the right, or decorate their user talk page with one of these medicine-specific barnstars:

	{{subst:The Medic Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Medic Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	{{subst:The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who exhibit exceptional effort and dedication to articles related to WikiProject Medicine. The barnstar design was created by Eustress on April 17, 2008.
	[[Image:Encephalon Cross.svg|frame|center|'''The Encephalon Cross''' message ~~~~]]	The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed by Encephalon.
	[[File:Star_of_life.svg|135px|frame|center|'''The Star of Life''' message ~~~~]]	Star of Life For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced by White Cat and designed by Leo R. Schwartz in 1973.
	{{subst:The Disability Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Disability Barnstar for work related to disabilities. From Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	{{subst:The Science Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Science Barnstar for work explaining the science behind medicine. From Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject

See also

• List of all subpages of this page
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources (medicine-related articles)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)
• Wikipedia:Conflicts of interest (medicine), an essay

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Project watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Medicine

External links

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Resources

• Pubmed
• David Iberri's PMID cite tool
• CDC Public Health Image library
• CDC Parasite Image Library
• NCI Visualsonline

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.