Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pharmacology/Style guide
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[edit] Update
I've updated and expanded this page a bit. If anyone would like to discuss my changes, or edit further, please go ahead! :) Fvasconcellos (tยทc) 16:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Off-label use
I've written a bit about the problems inherent in discussing approval and off-label uses here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)/archive1#Turning practical and specific pointers to vague. Any comments? I believe that such issues are not relevant to an encyclopedic text and the MOS should state so. However, I haven't found much interest in the idea, and I don't want to go ahead and and add it if there's reasonable opposition. Any comments? KonradG 03:59, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Non-standard section naming
One of the main issues with all of the articles about drugs is the issue of consistency. Naming and organization of sections needs to be standardized, which is what this project page attempts to address. Here are a few observations I've made concerning this issue:
- Section naming
- Indications - frequently titled "Uses". This section title may be preferable, since one of the overall goals of an encyclopedia is to explain a topic to someone with little prior knowledge of the subject. A frequent criticism of pharmacology/drug articles is that they are jargonistic and difficult to read. Opinions?
- Pharmacology - often titled "Mechanism" or "Mechanism of action"
- Section organization
- Sections are almost always in an entirely random, haphazard order, particularly in articles that receive little attention.
- Drugbox vs. Chembox
- Where is the line of demarcation between "chemicals" and drugs? I find that it is entirely blurred. Whenever appropriate (i.e., whenever a compound is used in humans) there should be a drugbox, rather than a chembox, the latter of which provides less pertinent info.
