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.)
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.
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]
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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. PMID19017825.
