Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pharmacology

Psilocybin Featured article review

User:DigitalIceAge has nominated Psilocybin for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 11:24, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Amino acid

Amino acid has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:18, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Contest

I started an informal, low-key contest about adding citations to articles for WikiProject Medicine. You can join it through this link: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikipedia/WikiProject_Medicine_reference_campaign_2023?enroll=qyoufwds

So far, we've discovered that some of us spend more time removing (bad) sources than adding new ones. Last I checked the leaderboard, the winner had only added 41 citations (net), so I think the field's wide open to anyone who is interested. If you sign up, it will count your edits retroactively from the beginning of January (when we started), so there's no penalty for joining late. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:17, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Help needed to delete articles

This three drugs ([1], [2], [3]) are no longer being developed. In my opinion their articles should be deleted, as they are not relevant anymore. How can I do it? In my talk page I was informed that it was not reason enough, so I do not know how to do it. MathTexLearner (talk) 14:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

@MathTexLearner: As noted on your talk page, you would need to use the Articles for deletion process instead of requesting speedy deletion. This creates a discussion page where other editors discuss a deletion request. The process is explained at that page but is not very simple to do manually. It is a lot easier if you use WP:TWINKLE, added by ticking the box at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets. Note though that just because a drug is no longer being developed does not mean that the article should necessarily be deleted. If multiple independent sources exist then it is likely that the discussion would be closed with the article being kept. As an alternative, it might be better to update the articles citing reliable sources to say that they are no longer in development. SmartSE (talk) 15:24, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at WP:MCQ § Proactive request for input

 You are invited to join the discussion at WP:MCQ § Proactive request for input. -- Marchjuly (talk) 19:40, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:41, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Is the pharmacology project still alive?

I fear that many of the entries on pharmacology are well below the standard that one has come to expect from Wikipedia. This is especially true of entries with a theoretical content, for example Schild regression, and pages that deal with efficacy and affinity. I doubt if they can be made satisfactory by tinkering. They need to be re-written from scratch.

I would appreciate advice about the best way to proceed. David Colquhoun (talk) 16:42, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

As for the project, I'm here at least, although the amount of activity depends on the number of interested editors at any given time. WT:MED is very active all the time, and you can usually find editors with pharmacology expertise there if you don't get a response here.

I've put Schild regression on my watchlist, and will try to help where I can, although I'm probably not going to take the lead in revising it. I looked at your talk page comments for that page. I agree with you about moving the page to Schild equation, and would support making such a move. For the other corrections in sourcing and nomenclature, I think it would be fine for you to WP:Be bold, and just make those edits. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:47, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks very much. That's the quickest response that I've ever had from Wikipedia.

Sadly I think that there's too much wrong with the page to make it recoverable. It really needs to be deleted and started again with a different title -the Schild Equation would be fine.

It's a topic that I've been immersed in ever since Heinz Schild gave me my first job in 1964, so it's painful to see it misunderstood. David Colquhoun (talk) 19:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

It's a pleasure to see a subject matter expert editing here, and I'm sure anything you can do will be much appreciated. I've, at least, gone ahead and moved the page myself, and made a few copyedits. (As for the quick response, I just happened to be watching, and the "still active?" part of your post caught my attention.) --Tryptofish (talk) 19:21, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

By the way, it's OK to blank sections of the page and rewrite them from scratch. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:24, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

David, please forgive me for being a bit slow, but I just realized who you are. As it happens, I previously worked with Sol Snyder. --Tryptofish talk) 19:32, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I don't much like anonymity myself, so I've always used my real name in wikipedia (and elsewhere).

Do I infer correctly that when you say 'move a page', you mean that you change its title?

I will have a go at rewriting the page though it may take a while (partly because I'll need to master the math notation used by wikipedia). Where should I put the draft? David Colquhoun (talk) 15:59, 18 April 2023 (UTC)