Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology

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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

• 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.

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

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/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
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	7				11
FL	1						1
GA	1	18	21	7			47
B	36	237	243	89		6	611
C	54	230	525	441		119	1,369
Start	28	332	1,302	1,791		825	4,278
Stub		33	847	4,023		2,330	7,233
List		14	136	101		180	431
Category					1,104		1,104
Disambig					13		13
File					44		44
Project					23		23
Redirect		12	45	90	790		937
Template					387		387
NA				10	5		15
Other					25		25
Assessed	120	880	3,126	6,552	2,391	3,460	16,529
Total	120	880	3,126	6,552	2,391	3,460	16,529
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 72,185			Ω = 5.33

• 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

Redirects for discussion

• 28 Oct 2024 – 4-aminopurine (talk · edit · hist) →4-Aminopyridine was RfDed by Marbletan (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• 08 Oct 2024 – Tumor necrosis factor (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by AdeptLearner123 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 10 Oct 2024 – Vitamin E (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by David notMD (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

• 20 Oct 2024 – Traneurocin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cyclic glycine-proline by Graeme Bartlett (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Sep 2024 – Norpropylhexedrine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Propylhexedrine by Irruptive Creditor (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Sep 2024 – Barbexaclone (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Propylhexedrine by Irruptive Creditor (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Jun 2024 – Precision cut lung slices (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Precision cut tissue slices by Beland (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

• 17 Oct 2024 – Draft:Jill Kolesar (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kjhughes12 (t · c)
• 29 Oct 2024 – Draft:FKW00GA (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 76.174.0.57 (t · c) was moved to FKW00GA (talk · edit · hist) by LR.127 (t · c) on 30 Oct 2024
• 28 Oct 2024 – Draft:Alcohol and society (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 94.255.152.53 (t · c) was declined by LR.127 (t · c) on 30 Oct 2024
• 26 Oct 2024 – Draft:6-MeO-DMT (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 76.174.0.57 (t · c) was accepted to 6-MeO-DMT (talk · edit · hist) by SafariScribe (t · c) on 26 Oct 2024
• 15 Oct 2024 – Draft:Methenamine - sodium salicylate (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by 76.174.0.57 (t · c) was moved to Methenamine - sodium salicylate (talk · edit · hist) by LR.127 (t · c) on 29 Oct 2024

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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.
	[[File: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

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Pharmacology

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:

• 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)