Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
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Welcome to the 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!). The original goal statement said:
- 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.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our discussion page (which also serves as the doctor's mess since the WikiProject Clinical medicine merged back into this project). 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 medicine 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 improving Wikipedia's medical articles,
-The members
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[edit] How you can help
[edit] Collaborate
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The current Medicine Collaboration of the Week is Physiotherapy. |
| Last week's collaboration was Long-term effects of alcohol. |
| Collaboration Dashboard | |
| Top priorities | Medicine, Cancer, Disease, Health, Death... (more core topics or vital articles) |
 Featured article candidates |
Alzheimer's disease |
| 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 |
Post-concussion syndrome, Pulmonary contusion, John Benjamin Murphy, Wilson's disease |
| Good article review | none at the moment |
| Peer review | none at the moment |
| Requires copyediting | Hemorrhoid, Neurolinguistic programming, Sphygmomanometer (needs IPA) |
| Requested articles | Latin terminology in anatomy, Vascular recruitment, Immune collapse |
| Recently revised | Artificial limb, Gastroenteritis |
| Active Portals |  Medicine |
| Medicine articles |
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
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 FA |
2 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 44 | ||
| FL |
2 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| A | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
 GA |
5 | 22 | 30 | 17 | 74 | ||
| B | 48 | 350 | 715 | 393 | 1 | 1507 | |
| Start | 7 | 240 | 1756 | 2194 | 7 | 4204 | |
| Stub | 7 | 1104 | 4337 | 1770 | 7218 | ||
| List | 6 | 84 | 72 | 1 | 163 | ||
| Assessed | 64 | 648 | 3708 | 7020 | 1779 | 13219 | |
| Total | 64 | 648 | 3708 | 7020 | 1779 | 13219 | |
[edit] Other ideas
- Adopt a stub! There are many, many stubby MED articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Some good categories are Cat:Medicine stubs, ... .
- Contribute to a team effort by participating in the Collaboration of the Week, a bi-weekly collaboration to improve medicine articles to featured article status. Everyone from subject-matter experts to normal readers is welcome to do what they can!
- Add 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 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.
- Join in discussing proposals, so that we can take our ideas off the drawing board and put them into action. Go there, choose a proposal, read it and add your two cents!
- The Medicine Portal always needs to be maintained! If you want to join or find out more, please contact contact the maintainers.
- Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in medicine to contribute to Wikipedia.
- Pictures - Add image or photograph.
[edit] List of open tasks
If you have a job for the project, please list it here:
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| :) User talk:Smallbones:) | Peter Pronovost | Pronovost was recently listed by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, but we had nothing on him until today.:Note I know nothing about medicine, could a knowledgable person check the article?. Smallbones (talk) 20:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC) |
| :) Save The Humans:) | Arnold-Chiari malformation | More infomation has come out of this malformation and it needs to be updated. Like causes "genetical and non-gentical", ect.
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| User:Mrzaius | Megalomania | After three years, this article remains little more than a dictionary definition. It has been proposed in the past that the page be rewritten, merged with others, or replaced with the disambiguation page, but nothing's ever come of it. Would someone qualified to make the call please let us know whether or not the megalomania, in the context of psychology, warrants coverage in a full-blown Wikipedia article, and, if it does, what sources to draw from to expand it? MrZaiustalk 11:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC) |
| User:Fanra | Micromastia | Requesting comments: Talk:Micromastia#Request for Comment: Micromastia. Dispute over the meaning of the word and also whether the article should mention the controversy about the word. Fanra 17:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC) |
| User: Mgoodyear | Declaration of Helsinki | Long overdue and in the news again since the process of the sixth revision has started. I have made a start on updating and focussing it. It needs integrating into clinical research and medical ethics. --Mgoodyear 21:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC) |
| User:WTGDMan1986 | Diabetes, bulimia, and anorexia | I have a character in one of my fictional stories that suffers from the 3 medical conditions described above. I would like to revert vandalism from all medical condition pages if possible. --DFW 17:42, 4 September 2007 (UTC) |
| User:demantos | AEMT-CC | I have written this article on the AEMT-CC level in NYS. If it needs any updating or additional info, please add to it. Demantos 15:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC) |
| Kyoko | Respiratory disease | I stumbled upon this article which is in bad condition. I hope to do some work on the article, but it really needs a doctor or other medical person to improve it. --Kyoko 13:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC) |
| User:Dontmentionit | Lowenstein-Jensen medium | I have added this article on the LJ medium. Any additions by more experienced users would be appreciated. Dontmentionit (talk) 18:29, 21 December 2007 (UTC) |
| User:Eric Kvaalen | Muscle contraction | A long dispute (see Talk:Muscle contraction#Eccentric, continued in the sections "Eccentric contractions and forces" and "Eccentric redux") concerning the whether the opposing force in an "eccentric contraction" must necessarily be greater than the force exerted by the muscle (at all times, not just initially). Also on a proposed sentence concerning whether less energy is consumed in "eccentric contractions" than in "concentric contractions" for the same amount of force. It may be more appropriate to bring this up with physicists or chemists, rather than medical people! EricK (talk) 16:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC) |
| User:WhatamIdoing | Hypoplasia | This stub looks awful. My first thought was that it was supposed to be a disambiguation page, but it's actually just a list of conditions in which hypoplasia is present. I think that just about any change will be an improvement. I'll make one small improvement tonight; can you make another? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC) |
| delldot | Concussion | If someone with expertise could vet this for accuracy, it would be most appreciated. So far no experts have looked at the article. delldot talk 14:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC) |
| User:io_io_editor | natalizumab | This article has received recent attention and discussion, most well-meaning, but the result is a gross bias towards its media-sensationalized history and which has subordinated the therapeutic benefits to a single down-the-page paragraph. See also Talk:Natalizumab. New eyes are badly needed, preferably qualified and preferably with experience in MS treatment.io-io (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC) |
| User:tb | Fasting#Physiological effects of fasting and Famine response | These two articles contain discussions of ketosis and the process by which the body adjusts metabolism in response to dietary restriction. Both could really use some references and checkups from the experts in this area Tb (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC) |
| WLU (talk) | Methadone maintenance | Page was a back and forth criticism-rebuttal of MM with no real sources and no real discussion. Now a stub. Needs expert advice. WLU (talk) 18:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC) |
| SmithBlue (talk) | John J. Bonica | One of the pivitol figure in post-WWII pain management. Began; first formalized training program in pain management, IASP, multi-discipline pain clinic. SmithBlue (talk) 03:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC) |
| User:69.140.152.55 (talk) | Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Health science#Medicine | Low-priority job: fix the bot that updates the "Expert attention needed" list that appears on this page. 22:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC) |
| vulnerable plaque | Find more sources; copyedit. 03:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC) |
[edit] News and announcements
| edit Please list here the Medicine Wikiproject related news, announcements. |
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- May 07 2008
- A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick (where every article is a real medical case), is started. See proposal details for Wikisick. The final name is discussable. Take a look at the demo version at Wikia: Diagnosis.
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==Welcome!==
Hello, WikiProject Medicine, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place  If you are interested in contributing more to medical related articles you may want to join WikiProject Medicine (signup here). Again, welcome! |
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==Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!==
 Welcome to WikiProject Medicine! I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities:
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, or feel free to ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! |
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[edit] Barnstar
You may award the Medicine Barnstar to those you feel have done superb work in the realm of medicine-related articles. Locate insertion text at Wikipedia:Wikiproject_awards.
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[edit] Other medical awards
 The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed by Encephalon. |
 Star of Life For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced by White Cat and designed by Leo R. Schwartz in 1973. |
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WikiProject Council would like to inform all Wikipedians that it may be advantageous to:
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