Every month, a WikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month will be selected using this page. The article may or may not yet exist. The topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (anatomy, biochemistry, and so on), or clinical medicine (illnesses, surgical procedures, and so on). The aim is to have a featured-standard article by the end of the period through widespread cooperative editing. This collaboration is part of the WikiProject Medicine project.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate and vote on articles (see Voting below). This collaboration uses approval voting. You do not have to be involved in the field of medicine to participate; the opinion of laypeople is valued both for article suggestions and to help ensure that articles are not too technical. New articles will be selected on the last Wednesday of each month (see the record of previous collaborations).

For individuals wishing to notify others of articles being created or for which they seeking collaborators, or ask for completed pages to be peer-reviewed, please see the project's talk page.

[edit] How to Nominate an Article

Nominations may be made at any time. Nominators must be registered users. To make a nomination, follow the following steps:

1. Edit the list of nominations and paste the following text at the bottom: {{subst:MCOTWnew|article name|~~~~~|your reason for nominating|~~~~}}.
2. Change the text accordingly (for example, {{subst:MCOTWnew|Histiocytosis X|~~~~~|April 24, 2012|It has an "X" in its name.|~~~~}}).
3. Please add |MCOTW=nom to the {{WPMED}} template on the article's talk page ex: {{WPMED|class=|importance=|MCOW=nom}}

[edit] Voting

Please vote in favor of as many candidates as you like; oppose votes have no effect (approval voting is used). Any registered user may nominate or vote for an article, provided that account's first edit occurred before the nomination. You do not have to have any special knowledge of medicine to nominate or vote for an article. To vote for an article, simply edit the appropriate section and sign your account name by adding # ~~~~. Supporting an article will be taken as a sign of your willingness to help improve the article (at least in some small way) if it is selected, but it does not represent a binding commitment.

If you believe that a topic does not fall within the scope of this project, please mention your objections in the "Comments" section.

On the last Wednesday of each month, the article currently with the most votes will normally be selected to be the new collaboration, although collaborations may be extended from time to time (for instance, during featured article candidacy). In the case of a tie, the article nominated first will normally be selected.

Articles not selected must receive at least two votes per month to remain in consideration. If a nomination fails to achieve sufficient votes, it may be renominated after at least two months. You may wish to see the archive of successful nominations.

[edit] Nominations for the next MCOTM

[edit] Serotonin

Nominated on 19 July 2010

Article looks in fairly good shape already and there is a bounty for it to reach FA.

Support

1. Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 10:58, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
2. Craig Hicks (talk) 14:05, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Comments.

[edit] Placebo

Nominated on 12 September 2010

No medical experts involved in this article. Occasional POV pushing attacks by editors with strong views about existence and ethics of the placebo effect. Major rewrite required to treat recent distinction between expectation and physiological training appropriately. [1]

Support

1. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:29, 15 September 2010 (UTC) Interesting topic.
2. NCurse _work 20:23, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
3. FunkyDuffy (talk) 05:29, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Comments. Since I am not an expert myself, I think it wouldn't be appropriate for me to support my own proposal.

The previous proposal of this article (by Scientizzle 2 years ago) seems to have stalled in spite of some support, because it couldn't be decided how precisely to get the pharmacology project on board. Now that their collaboration of the month is inactive, it should be enough to leave a message on WT:PHARM. Hans Adler 11:17, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Participants

Please note your interest in this collaboration at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Participants. (Those who were listed here previously were moved to that list.)

[edit] List of past and present maintainers

Past

1. Knowledge Seeker, founder, July 2005
2. NCurse, June 2006 to 2010
3. JFW, August 2007 to 2010

Present

1. Doc James, April 2010 to present
2. Craig Hicks, July 2010 to present
3. Peter Coti, December 2010 to present
4. Gumerperu, November 2011 to present

[edit] Tools

• /History — record of previous collaborations
• /Successful nominations
• /Expired nominations

For nominations

• {{subst:MCOTMnew}} sets up new nominations. It should be substituted on to this page by anyone wishing to nominate an article.

For user pages

• {{CurrentMCOTM}} is the announcement banner for the current collaboration. You may wish to place it on your user or talk page. To encourage participation by possibly interested people, leave this with a friendly note on other people's talk pages, especially those who voted in favor of the current article. Use {{subst:CurrentMCOTM}} if you want the article names to be fixed (rather than automatically changing each time a new article is chosen).
• {{user-MCOTM}} is a userbox that can be placed on your user or talk page to advertise the current medical collaboration of the month.
• {{subst:MCOTMthanks}} can be used to thank voters for being involved in the selection of the article and editors for improving any selected article. Includes an announcement of the current article.
• {{subst:The Teamwork Barnstar|message ~~~~}} can be awarded to people that worked well together on a recent article.

For project maintainers

• {{WPMED|MCOTM=nom}} is placed in the WikiProject Medicine banner on the talk pages of articles currently being considered for MCOTM. It places articles in Category:MCOTM candidates.
• {{WPMED|MCOTM=cur}} is used to indicate that the article is now the subject of the current collaboration.
• {{WPMED|MCOTM=prev}} is for articles previously selected as the collaboration of the month.
• {{Collab-medicine}} is a small template containing just a link to the current collaboration. It is transcluded elsewhere for automation.
• {{Collab-medicine-prev}} is a small template containing just a link to the previous collaboration. It is transcluded elsewhere for automation.