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?
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Create articles[edit]
- Missing drugs can be found by looking for red links on the alphabetical listings of List of drugs, for example: List of drugs: Df-Di
- Search Wikipedia to see if an article exists under a different name for the same drug. If so, make a redirect. If not, make a stub following the below steps.
- Start with a defining sentence, putting the name of the drug in bold.
- Put
{{pharma-stub}}at the bottom of the article. - After creating, don't forget to start the article's talk page with {{WikiProject Pharmacology|class= |importance= }}.
- Consider adding a structural diagram.
Improve articles[edit]
There are several ways to find articles of interest:
- Cleanup listings, which are helpfully sorted by type of problem tag
- WikiProject Pharmacology assessment grid, useful for finding high-importance, low-quality articles, or articles which are ready for a final push across the finish line to be a good article or featured article.
- Top 200 US Prescriptions 2011, useful for finding high-profile articles.
- Category:Pharmacology stubs - full of very short articles that are ready to be expanded.
Ideas for specific improvements:
- Add information to the infoboxes in drug articles.
- Add
{{Infobox receptor}}to the body of articles on GPCRs and other receptor proteins ({{Infobox gene}}should remain in the leads of these articles) - 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. 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]
Need help creating structural diagrams? See Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Structural diagrams. Also see the Wikipedia Manual of Style on Chemical Structure Diagrams.
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.
- Assign importance or quality grade (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Assessment for the grading scale) to articles in Category:Unknown-importance pharmacology articles or Category:Unassessed pharmacology articles.
- Categorize drug articles by adding them to the appropriate categories (for example, an appropriate subcategory of Category:Drugs).
- Once an article achieves a level of B-class or C-class, place the medicine portal template in the "See also" or "External links" section. You can do this by adding the following tag: {{Portal|Medicine}} or {{Portal bar|Medicine}}.
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!
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}}
- Member top icon (an alternative to the above): {{WikiProject Pharmacology topicon}}
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
ATC code navbox templates are listed by ATC code at List of ATC navboxes
Statistics[edit]
Showcase[edit]
Featured content[edit]
Featured articles and featured lists (indicated by 
) are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates and featured list candidates before being promoted to featured status. Articles and lists in bold indicate that the page has been featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article" or "Today's featured list" on the date noted.
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Current events[edit]
Articles for deletion
- 14 Apr 2024 – Tolufazepam (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jfire (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 01 Apr 2024 – Biopharma LLC (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Janhrach (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
Redirects for discussion
- 22 Mar 2024 – Dependence liability (talk · edit · hist) →Substance dependence was RfDed by Hildeoc (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Mar 2024 – Psychological addiction (talk · edit · hist) →Addiction was RfDed by Hildeoc (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 30 Mar 2024 – Propylhexedrine (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Irruptive Creditor (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Feb 2024 – Modafinil (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion
- 17 Nov 2023 – CYP4F2 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); start discussion
- 16 Nov 2023 – Ketotifen (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 30 Mar 2024 – Entheogen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Religion and drugs by 94.255.152.53 (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Dec 2023 – 3D printed medicine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 3D drug printing by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Dec 2023 – Phonophoresis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sonophoresis by Iztwoz (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 16 Dec 2020 – Immunoglobulin therapy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 07 Mar 2024 – Draft:Pimicotinib (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Yufeifeii (t · c)
- 30 Jan 2024 – Draft:Harry Destecroix (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 06 Sep 2023 – Draft:Monepantel (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GooglyNZ (t · c)
- undated – Draft:MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
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Awards[edit]
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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:
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The Pharmacology Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject |
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The EMC² Barnstar for work explaining the science behind pharmacology & medicine. From Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject |
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The Medic Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject |
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The Medicine Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who exhibit exceptional effort and dedication to articles related to Medicine or WikiProject Medicine. The barnstar design was created by Eustress on April 17, 2008. |
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The Encephalon Cross For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed by Encephalon. |
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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]
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| List overview · Updated: 2016-12-03 · This box: |
- 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]
- ^ 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): 1814–21. doi:10.1345/aph.1L474. PMID 19017825.
