Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Old 2012

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.

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 v t e
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.

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