Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology

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WikiProject
Pharmacology

General information

Departments
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How to help

Requested articles (1) / (2)

Cleanup list

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.)

How to help

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pharmacology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	7				11
FL	1						1
GA	1	18	23	7			49
B	36	239	244	94		11	624
C	54	232	526	442		124	1,378
Start	28	329	1,303	1,824		863	4,347
Stub		33	842	4,024		2,312	7,211
List		14	139	102		180	435
Category					1,173		1,173
Disambig					13		13
File					44		44
Project					23		23
Redirect		12	45	92	793		942
Template					388		388
NA				4	8		12
Other					27		27
Assessed	120	881	3,129	6,589	2,469	3,490	16,678
Total	120	881	3,129	6,589	2,469	3,490	16,678
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 72,483			Ω = 5.32

Assessment details

Showcase

Featured content

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.

Featured articles
Featured article		Main page date
	Acetic acid	December 2, 2005
	Antioxidant	June 22, 2007
	Bupropion	December 21, 2007
	Management of multiple sclerosis	January 25, 2008
	Eli Lilly	May 11, 2009
	Zinc	August 21, 2009
	Linezolid	September 14, 2009
	Water fluoridation	October 12, 2009
	Icos	March 13, 2010
	Metabolism	September 5, 2011
	Psilocybin	February 29, 2012
	Folding@home	November 1, 2012
	Amphetamine	April 3, 2015
	Serpin	April 2, 2016
	beta-Hydroxy beta-methylbutyric acid	May 28, 2018

Featured lists
Featured list		Main page date
	WHO Model List of Essential Medicines	June 5, 2017

Good articles

Good article		GA promotion date
	Frances Oldham Kelsey	May 19, 2006
	Metformin	January 14, 2007
	Percy Lavon Julian	February 18, 2007
	Doxorubicin	May 10, 2007
	Clindamycin	December 15, 2007
	Benzylpiperazine	January 1, 2008
	Receptor antagonist	January 16, 2008
	History of aspirin	April 9, 2008
	Aspirin	May 30, 2008
	Paracetamol poisoning	December 19, 2008
	Warfarin	January 21, 2009
	Serotonin syndrome	February 13, 2009
	Alprazolam	March 14, 2009
	Benzodiazepine	June 24, 2009

Good article		GA promotion date
	Selective glucocorticoid receptor agonist	April 1, 2010
	Midazolam	April 2, 2010
	Mephedrone	September 27, 2010
	Nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies	February 21, 2011
	Methoxyflurane	June 16, 2011
	Methamphetamine	January 27, 2014
	Adderall	December 3, 2014
	Norepinephrine	February 7, 2016
	Dopamine	March 15, 2016
	Collaborative practice agreement	November 7, 2017
	Vitamin C	November 27, 2017
	Rabeprazole	December 14, 2017

Current events

Did you know

20 Nov 2024 – Vitamin E (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by David notMD (t · c); see discussion

Categories for discussion

13 Nov 2024 – Category:Species endangered by human consumption for medicinal or magical purposes (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Fayenatic london (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

19 Nov 2024 – Phenacylamine (talk · edit · hist) move request to 2-Aminoacetophenone by Mdewman6 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be merged

20 Nov 2024 – DepoDur (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Morphine by Marbletan (t · c); see discussion
07 Nov 2024 – Amphetamine type stimulant (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Norepinephrine–dopamine releasing agent by 76.174.0.57 (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2024 – Traneurocin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cyclic glycine-proline by Graeme Bartlett (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

11 Oct 2024 – Alcohol (drug) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by EducatedRedneck (t · c); see discussion
16 Dec 2020 – Immunoglobulin therapy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

24 Nov 2024 – Draft:GET-73 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mo18ekula (t · c)
14 Nov 2024 – Draft:MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 130.225.188.129 (t · c)
11 Nov 2024 – Draft:Psychedelic Medicine (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 76.174.0.57 (t · c)
05 Nov 2024 – Draft:Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Crimsonandgrayhawk (t · c)
03 Nov 2024 – Draft:Alcohol and society (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 94.255.152.53 (t · c)
01 Nov 2024 – Draft:OM Pharma (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mestudillo (t · c)
24 Nov 2024 – Draft:Clemeprol (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Mo18ekula (t · c) was accepted to Clemeprol (talk · edit · hist) by Graeme Bartlett (t · c) on 26 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – Draft:DPH-362 (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 2.101.63.116 (t · c) was accepted to DPH-362 (talk · edit · hist) by Pygos (t · c) on 24 Nov 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Draft:Jill Kolesar (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Kjhughes12 (t · c) was accepted to Jill Kolesar (talk · edit · hist) by Tesleemah (t · c) on 27 Nov 2024

Related WikiProjects

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:

	`{{subst:The Pharmacology Barnstar\|message ~~~~\|alt}}`	The Pharmacology Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	`{{subst:The EMC² Barnstar\|message ~~~~\|alt}}`	The EMC² Barnstar for work explaining the science behind pharmacology & medicine. From Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	`{{subst:The Medic Barnstar\|message ~~~~\|alt}}`	The Medic Barnstar from Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
	`{{subst:The Medicine Barnstar\|message ~~~~\|alt}}`	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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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.

Project watchlist

Recent changes in WP:Pharmacology
In the most popular articles (source) 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

^ 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.

[1] 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.

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