Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology
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Welcome to WikiProject Pharmacology. A WikiProject is a group of editors who work together to improve articles that interest them. This independent WikiProject coordinates the development of Wikipedia articles and lists relating to the pharmacology and science of medications and other pharmacology-related topics.
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[edit] Goals
- Expand all stubs under the scope of WikiProject Pharmacology and remove inconsistencies in related articles.
- Categorize all articles within the scope of the project.
- Tag all articles by inserting {{WikiProject Pharmacology|class=|importance=}} on every pharmacology-related article's talk page, and assess the articles' quality and importance.
- Create and maintain navigational boxes for major drug groups and subgroups of drugs. (The major drug navbox contains all groups, and specific groups' navboxes contain links to actual articles of specific drugs.)
[edit] How to help
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[edit] Improve articles
- The article worklist contains a list of all of the articles that have been identified as being of interest to the project, organized according to category and assigned an importance and quality grade.
- Adopt a stub. There are many, many stubby pharmacology articles that have the potential to be excellent articles.
- Work on one of the top 200 prescribed medicines [1].(US stats)
- Add information to the infoboxes in drug articles.
- Need help creating structural diagrams? See Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Structural diagrams. Also see the Wikipedia Manual of Style on Chemical Structure Diagrams.
- Add references. Correct and reliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to be verifiable sources 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.
- Fight against vandalism. Also, be suspicious about deletions or mitigations of adverse effects, as it has been shown that they are targets of drug company representatives.[1]
- Create missing redirects of trade names to generic names listed at the PotatoBot log.
[edit] Categorize articles
- Label articles of interest to the project by putting the {{WikiProject Pharmacology}} template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to pharmacy and pharmacology.
- Stubs: Category:Uncategorised pharmacology articles contains all stubs requiring categorization.
- Categorize drug articles by adding them to the appropriate categories.
- Once an article achieves a level of B-class or C-class, place the pharmacology portal template in the 'see also' or 'external links' section. You can do this by adding the following tag: {{Portal|Pharmacy and Pharmacology}}.
[edit] Direct our focus
- 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 Pharmacology portal always needs to be maintained!
[edit] Work on project pages
- Help to develop the Drugbox and drug navigational templates. Drug information boxes can be included in each Wikipedia article about a particular drug.
- Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in pharmacology to contribute to Wikipedia.
[edit] Templates
Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Templates
- Project template: {{WikiProject Pharmacology}}
- Member userbox: {{User WikiProject Pharmacology}}
Infoboxes have been created for a number of article types including:
- {{Drugbox}} for medications
- {{Drugclassbox}} for classes of medication
- {{Diagnostic infobox}} for diagnostic tests
[edit] Statistics
| Pharmacology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA |
1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |||
 GA |
1 | 12 | 9 | 22 | |||
| B | 35 | 197 | 135 | 17 | 16 | 400 | |
| C | 14 | 52 | 49 | 17 | 21 | 153 | |
| Start | 52 | 194 | 497 | 238 | 252 | 1,233 | |
| Stub | 21 | 58 | 685 | 1,282 | 3,132 | 5,178 | |
| List | 10 | 110 | 25 | 129 | 274 | ||
| NA | 2 | 350 | 352 | ||||
| Assessed | 124 | 527 | 1,488 | 1,581 | 350 | 3,550 | 7,620 |
| Unassessed | 220 | 220 | |||||
| Total | 124 | 527 | 1,488 | 1,581 | 350 | 3,770 | 7,840 |
[edit] Showcase
[edit] 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.
[edit] Good articles
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[edit] Related WikiProjects
[edit] Awards
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Barnstars on Wikipedia WikiProject Wikipedia 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:
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{{subst:The Pharmacology Barnstar|message ~~~~}} |
The Pharmacology Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject |
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{{subst:The Science Barnstar|message ~~~~}} |
The Science Barnstar for work explaining the science behind pharmacology & medicine. From Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject |
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{{subst:The Medic Barnstar|message ~~~~}} |
The Medic Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject |
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{{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. |
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[[Image:Encephalon Cross.svg|frame|center|'''The Encephalon Cross''' message ~~~~]] |
The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed by Encephalon. |
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[[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. |
[edit] Participants
Here is a list of WikiProject Pharmacology members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.
[edit] Project watchlist
[edit] References
- ^ Clauson, K. A.; Polen, H. H.; Boulos, M. N. K.; Dzenowagis, J. H. (2008). "Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia". Annals of Pharmacotherapy 42 (12): 1814. doi:10.1345/aph.1L474. PMID 19017825.
