Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology

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WikiProject Pharmacology
General information
Project page	talk
Manual of Style	talk
Reliable sources	talk
Popular pages	talk
Departments  → Assessment (Log) talk  → Research talk  → Editor outreach talk
How to help
Requested articles (1) / (2)
Cleanup list
Other content
Categorization
Structure diagrams
Photographs
Templates
Workspace
Historical
Resources for editors	talk
Participants	talk
Portal	talk
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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.

Goals[edit]

• 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.)

How to help[edit]

Looking for something to do?

Improve articles[edit]

• 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 US Prescriptions 2011.
• 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 well-sourced 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.

Categorize articles[edit]

• 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}}.

Direct our focus[edit]

• 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!

Work on project pages[edit]

• Help to develop the Drugbox and drug navigational templates. Drug information boxes can be included in each Wikipedia article about a particular drug. This crosscheck page lists WP:Pharmacology articles without Drugbox, and inverse.
• Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in pharmacology to contribute to Wikipedia.

Templates[edit]

• Project template: {{WikiProject Pharmacology}}
• Recent changes: {{Recent changes in Pharmacology}}
• Member userbox: {{User WikiProject Pharmacology}}

Infoboxes have been created for a number of article types including:

• {{Infobox drug}} for medications
• {{Infobox drug class}} for classes of medication
• {{Infobox diagnostic}} for diagnostic tests

Statistics[edit]

Pharmacology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	4	6	1			12
GA	1	12	10	1			24
B	25	186	131	17		1	360
C	33	113	217	118		10	491
Start	52	233	749	698	8	719	2,459
Stub	3	24	660	2,265	153	3,095	6,200
List	1	11	125	41		155	333
NA		1	1		868		870
Assessed	116	584	1,899	3,141	1,029	3,980	10,749
Unassessed						460	460
Total	116	584	1,899	3,141	1,029	4,440	11,209
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7004526180000000000♠52,618			Ω = 5.51

• Assessment details

Showcase[edit]

Featured articles[edit]

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.

Good articles[edit]

Current events[edit]

Articles for deletion

• 23 Mar 2017 – CCX832 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Anypodetos (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

Featured list candidates

• 30 Jan 2017 – WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Doc James (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 27 Mar 2017 – Beta-Hydroxy beta-methylbutyric acid (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Seppi333 (t · c); start discussion
• 20 Dec 2016 – Smoking in North Korea (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Finnusertop (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 17 Dec 2016 – Paracetamol toxicity (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Doc James (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 28 Mar 2017 – Opioid use disorder (talk · edit · hist) RfC by Doc James (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Related WikiProjects[edit]

• Psychoactive and Recreational Drugs
• Medicine
• Chemicals
• Dietary Supplements

Awards[edit]

Wikipedia Awards
Barnstars on Wikipedia Awards by WikiProject Barnstars 2.0 by WikiProject    Awards by country    Barnstars 2.0 by country Other related awards Personal user awards Ribbons alternatives Userbox alternatives Service awards Incremental service awards Award templates Kindness Campaign WikiProject Wikipedia Awards
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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:

	{{subst:The Pharmacology Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Pharmacology Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	{{subst:The Science Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Science Barnstar for work explaining the science behind pharmacology & medicine. From Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	{{subst:The Medic Barnstar|message ~~~~}}	The Medic Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	{{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.
	[[Image:Encephalon Cross.svg|frame|center|'''The Encephalon Cross''' message ~~~~]]	The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed by Encephalon.
	[[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.

Participants[edit]

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.

Project watchlist[edit]

Recent changes in WP:Pharmacology
In project articles (+ talkpages) In all pages (+ talkpages) In articles with {{Infobox drug}} (+ talkpages)
List overview · Updated: 2016-12-03 · This box: v · t

• Levomefolic acid recently added to project, was being only maintained by WP Chem, is also a medication, does not meet manual of style, has proposed name change to L-methylfolate, also Wikipedia articles needing clarification (October 2011), Articles with unsourced statements (December 2011, May 2010), Vague or ambiguous time (October 2011)

References[edit]