Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Collaboration of the Month

Every week, a Medicine Collaboration of the Week 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 Preclinical Medicine and WikiProject Clinical medicine.

WikiProject Medicine Collaboration Dashboard
Top priorities	Medicine, Cancer, Disease, Health, Death ... (more core topics or vital articles)
Featured article candidates	None at the moment
Featured list candidates	None at the moment
Featured article review	None at the moment
Featured article removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured list removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured picture candidates	None at the moment
Good article candidates	Animal models of schizophrenia (needs reviewer), Bipolar disorder, Neurotoxin (needs reviewer), Mu wave (needs reviewer), International emergency medicine (needs reviewer), Barend Joseph Stokvis (needs reviewer)
Good article reassessment	None at the moment
Peer review	Circumcision, Bronchitis, Androgenic alopecia, Management of baldness, Mouth ulcer
Active Portals	Medicine
Recently revised Cleanup listing Requested articles Deletions

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 every Wednesday (see the record of previous collaborations). This collaboration is still new; rules may change or be bent as we find our footing. The week starting September 7, 2005 will be our monthly Week of Respite; the next article will be chosen on September 14, 2005.

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 WikiProject Clinical medicine/Collaboration.

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 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 add # ~~~~. If you believe that a topic does not fall within the scope of this project, please mention your objections in the "Comments" section. Every Wednesday, the article currently with the most votes will be selected to be the new collaboration. In the case of a tie, the article nominated first will be selected. Articles not selected must receive at least two votes per week to remain in consideration. If a nomination fails to achieve sufficient votes, it may be renominated after at least two weeks. You may wish to see the archive of successful nominations.

Nominations

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|~~~~~|date in seven days|your reason for nominating|~~~~}}.
2. Change the text accordingly (for example, {{subst:MCOTWnew|Histiocytosis X|~~~~~|August 2, 2005|It has an "X" in its name.|~~~~}}).
3. Please add {{MCOTWnom}} to the top of the article's talk page.

Nominations for the next MCOTW

Residency (medicine)

Nominated on 05:30, August 23, 2005 (UTC); if not selected by September 6, 2005, needs 4 votes to remain in consideration.

Obviously, a very important subject for me right now (any other residents out there?). As User:Encephalon mentioned on the talk page, this article needs to be merged with Medical residency. I tend to feel that the former title is better for the merged article, but we can discuss that further. This article really needs to be a lot more comprehensive. It seems pretty consistent with U.S. residency, although it could use more detail and reorganization, and I am not sure how well it reflects practices in other parts of the world.

Support

1. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:30, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
2. David Ruben^talk 20:41, 23 August 2005 (UTC). Very US-centric, both in terms used, hourly restrictions (somewhat similar rules being enforced across Europe/UK) and career path to Consultantship. Note also articles on Junior doctors (which is UK-centric) and Registrars (more of a disambiguation page). The training in UK has just undergone a radical change this year (as a fully qualifed GP, I'm a little hazy on the specifics), so would be timely to rework these pages.

Comments

• I agree that it is US-centric. UK input would be nice. I also agree that it should be merged with Medical residency. Cybergoth 20:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• I suggest a UK page which redirects to medical residency section titled "Other countries". With the existnece of the new foundation years and then House officership, I would also be tempted to start a completely new section on that instead of merging. PhatRita 15:21, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Pneumonia

Nominated on 06:14, August 31, 2005 (UTC); if not selected by September 14, 2005, needs 4 votes to remain in consideration.

As User:Encephalon mentioned on Talk:Asthma, I think I caused our efforts to be spread thin by nominating Asthma for WP:FAC. User:Wouterstomp did a great job, and I'm sorry that I didn't help at all. I think Pneumonia should be a featured article as well, but I don't want to take time away from other collaboration efforts, so I figured I would renominate it. Here's what I'm thinking: I'll nominate it for peer review now, and work on responding to any suggestions. If it does get selected here, we can work on it for a couple days more, then maybe nominate it for FAC on Friday or something? We could then spend the rest of the week responding to suggestions and criticisms. If this is a terrible idea, leave a comment here and I won't do it again.

Support

1. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:14, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
2. —Encephalon | ^ζ  07:19:00, 2005-08-31 (UTC)
3. Mr.Bip 15:02, 5 September 2005 (UTC) - I'll be happy to help out with the polishing process, though I didn't help to write the article.

Comments

• No, it's not a terrible idea at all. But I do wonder if we don't have the manpower to keep this pace, guys. A new article has already been selected, and I didn't get to touch RA; carcinogenesis is a distant memory. WS has been doing yeoman work on RA, but he's been alone, IIRC. I hope to complete a new section on alternative medicine in asthma, improve the clinical manifestations part, rewrite the refs with both new and old ones, and add some data about smoking to the asthma article shortly. I'm also in the midst of sorting through the Pneumonia refs, which are at present something of a, um, disaster :). The DDx and complications sections could use work, too. Putting Asthma on WP:FAC was good, and MCOTW is very successful, but I wonder if we need to rethink the pace of what we're doing. It absolutely makes sense to FAC the articles we work on, I'm just wondering if we can think of a mechanism to stop MCOTW work in those weeks when we have a FAC candidate, at least until we have enough manpower that we can maybe think of "delegating" work?—Encephalon | ^ζ  07:19:00, 2005-08-31 (UTC)
  • I'm slightly confused. I was hoping this could be such a mechanism: if Pneumonia is selected, we can run the FAC process during that week, and we won't have any other MCOTW business during that week to distract us. Or are you referring to any time that a medical article is on FAC? We could certainly suspend MCOTW for a week, extending all expiry times by one week, but we'd need some way to agree to do it for a particular nomination—I wouldn't want to be responsible for unilaterally suspending and restarting MCOTW. I agree that this pace might be a bit too fast, though. Perhaps we should go back to fortnightly work? Or maybe suspend MCOTW the first week of each month? — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:32, August 31, 2005 (UTC)
    • Sorry, KS, maybe I didn't write that properly. You're right about this being a mechanism for this week. We could FAC pneumonia this weekend. I guess what I'm saying is we've got one (the big) part of MCOTW right: setting up articles to work on and doing the heavy lifting during its MCOTW. Then we move to the next, and all fine-tuning and responding to FAC criticism takes place while other MCOTWs are ongoing. For me this has meant not contributing to some MCOTWs (of course this is partly because I also choose to do other work on WP, like VfD, RC patrol, RFA, and helping out the guys on cerebellum, for example). I was just wondering if we could set up a mechanism so that during an article's FAC, everyone involved in the project can chip in. However, on second thought this may not be such a good idea: MCOTF may be too slow/dispersed to drum up enthusiasm. Maybe we should see how this goes for a bit longer?—Encephalon | ^ζ  08:05:03, 2005-08-31 (UTC)

Medical topics in other collaborations

Active

• Featured article candidates: Asthma
• Peer review: Pneumonia (project page)
• Featured article candidates: Cerebellum
• Featured article candidates: Terri Schiavo (somewhat medical)
• Peer review: HIV (project page)

Nominated

• This week's improvement drive: H5N1
• This week's improvement drive: Teenage pregnancy
• This week's improvement drive: Human genome
• This week's improvement drive: Autism epidemic

Participants

This is just an informal list of participants; you may add or remove your name at any time. Listing yourself here does not obligate you to participate and you can vote and participate also if you don't sign yourself here. It is just to give us an idea of how much interest there is in this collaboration. You may add any medical qualification you have, if you like.

1. Knowledge Seeker (resident physician)
2. User:Arcadian (premed)
3. JFW | T@lk
4. PhatRita (med student)
5. Alex.tan
6. Eleassar (med student)
7. Mr.Bip (recent college grad, pre-med)
8. WS (med student)
9. Encephalon | ^ζ  (doc)
10. David Ruben GP
11. TenOfAllTrades (graduate student, medical biophysics)

Tools

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

{{CurrentMCOTW}} is the banner for the current collaboration. You may wish to place it on your user or talk page.

{{MCOTWnom}} is placed on the talk pages of articles currently being considered for MCOTW. It places articles in Category:MCOTW candidates. Template:MCOTWnom

{{MCOTWcur}} is for the current collaboration article. While it is currently being placed at the top of articles, its placement has not been finalized. It may go on the article and/or talk page. Template:MCOTWcur

{{{MCOTWprev}} is for articles previously selected as the collaboration of the week. It places articles in Category:MCOTW previous collaborations. Template:MCOTWprev

{{MCOTWannounce}} is our announcement box, highlighting collaboration articles that are undergoing peer review or are featured article candidates. It may also be used for other medicine-related announcements as well. It will be blank when there are no announcements. It may be placed on user pages or user talk pages, or medicine-related discussion pages, and so on.

WikiProject Medicine Collaboration Dashboard
Top priorities	Medicine, Cancer, Disease, Health, Death ... (more core topics or vital articles)
Featured article candidates	None at the moment
Featured list candidates	None at the moment
Featured article review	None at the moment
Featured article removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured list removal candidates	None at the moment
Featured picture candidates	None at the moment
Good article candidates	Animal models of schizophrenia (needs reviewer), Bipolar disorder, Neurotoxin (needs reviewer), Mu wave (needs reviewer), International emergency medicine (needs reviewer), Barend Joseph Stokvis (needs reviewer)
Good article reassessment	None at the moment
Peer review	Circumcision, Bronchitis, Androgenic alopecia, Management of baldness, Mouth ulcer
Active Portals	Medicine
Recently revised Cleanup listing Requested articles Deletions

{{MCOTWnew}} sets up new nominations. It should always be substituted.