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Welcome to the assessment department of the Medicine WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's medicine articles . While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPMED}} banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Medicine articles by quality and Category:Medicine articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

All articles under medicine project should try to adhere to Manual of Style (medicine-related articles). An article is unlikely to attract a grade above B class if it does not conform to style guideline. A Featured Article is the highest possible assessment, and requires a community consensus demonstrated at Featured Article Candidates per the guidelines of What Is a Featured Article? An A-Class Article is very well-written, nearly comprehensive and approaching excellence, but may still need minor edits and adjustments.

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Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated? 
List it in the requesting an assessment section below.
Who can assess articles? 
Any member of WikiProject Medicine is free to add—or change—the rating of an article, but please follow the guidelines.
Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? 
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
Where can I get more comments about my article? 
Contact Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine who will handle it or assign the issue to someone. You may also list it for a Peer review.
What if I don't agree with a rating? 
Relist it as a request or contact the project.
Aren't the ratings subjective? 
Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask on the discussion page for this department, or to contact the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine directly.

Is WPMED the correct WikiProject to support this article?

This project supports articles related to medicine, such as diseases, conditions, and treatments for humans. However, there are many areas of medicine that it does not support, including veterinary medicine and alternative medicine. Additionally, there are other projects that are more closely related to some articles. Here are some other projects that may be better matches for some articles:

Probably yes

In general, all articles tagged for {{WikiProject Anatomy}}, {{WPDENT}}, {{WikiProject Neurology}}, {{WPNURSE}}, {{OphthoWikiProject}}, or {{MedGen}} should also have a WPMED tag.

Probably no
Use judgement
  • Articles about viruses: Tag all with {{Wikiproject Viruses}}. Add WPMED only if the virus causes diseases in humans.
  • Articles related to genetics (other than genetic diseases): Tag terminology, general concepts, and lab techniques with {{Wikiproject Genetics}} and/or {{WikiProject MCB}} instead of WPMED. Major articles may be supported by all projects. Add {{EvolWikiProject}} if it has a significant evolutionary component.
  • Articles related to nerves: {{WPNEURO}} for neuroscience, lab work, non-human neurology, and ideas about how nerves work; both {{WikiProject Neurology}} and WPMED for clinical practice and diseases; and both {{WikiProject Anatomy}} and WPMED for relevant anatomy.

Instructions

Index · Statistics · Log
Medicine
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 4 20 18 5 47
Featured list FL 2 2 4
A 2 2 1 5
Good article GA 8 21 31 18 78
B 49 348 755 434 4 1590
C 5 26 56 87
Start 8 241 1831 2302 3 4385
Stub 14 1280 4696 1098 7088
List 8 98 76 182
Assessed 71 659 4042 7589 1105 13466
Unassessed 1 9 10
Total 71 659 4043 7589 1114 13476

An article's assessment is generated from the parameters in the {{WPMED}} project banner on the article's talk page. Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class medicine articles (empty as of March 2008).

Syntax

You can learn the syntax by looking at the talk pages in edit mode and by reading the info below. This is the rating syntax (ratings are samples, change to what applies to the article in question):

{{WPMED}} or {{WPMED|class=|importance=}}
  • Displays the default banner, showing the project info and only ??? for the quality and importance parameters.
{{WPMED|class=A|importance=Top}}
  • Classed A with Top priority. All assessed articles should have quality and importance filled in.

Quality assessment

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WPMED}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WPMED| ... | class=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:

Priority assessment

An article's priority assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WPMED}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WPMED| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

Optional parameters

{{WPMED| ... | nested=???| ...}}
{{WPMED| ... | auto=???| ...}}

Quality scale


Importance scale

The purpose of the importance rating is to direct the project's article improvement efforts towards the most important articles, and incidentally to provide a convenient shortlist of important topics for readers who are interested in medicine generally.

All diseases, conditions, medications, and tests are of "top" importance to people who are directly affected by them. The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability that the average reader of Wikipedia will look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics that are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to a student, expert or patient.

WPMED's specific guidelines for importance ratings are provided below. In making an assessment, it is often helpful to compare the article with others that already have the proposed rating. Links to each category are provided in the first column of this table:

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top priority Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to medicine. Strong interest from non-professionals around the world. Usually a large subject with many associated sub-articles. Less than 1% of medicine-related articles achieve this rating. Tuberculosis or Cancer
High priority Subject is clearly notable. Subject is interesting to, or directly affects, many average readers. This category includes the most common diseases and treatments as well as major areas of specialization. Fewer than 10% of medicine-related articles achieve this rating. Coeliac disease or Mastectomy
Mid priority Normal priority for article improvement. A good article would be interesting or useful to many readers. Subject is notable within its particular specialty. This category includes most medical conditions, tests, approved drugs, medical subspecialties, well-known anatomy, and common signs and symptoms. Cholangiocarcinoma or Cramp
Low priority Article may only be included to cover a specific part of a more important article, or may be only loosely connected to medicine. Subject may be specific to one country or part of one country, such as licensing requirements or organizations. This category includes most of the following: very rare diseases, lesser-known medical signs, equipment, hospitals, individuals, historical information, publications, laws, investigational drugs, detailed genetic and physiological information, and obscure anatomical features. Leopard syndrome or Flynn effect
NA NA means Not an Article. This label is used for all pages that are not articles, such as templates, categories, and disambiguation pages. (To mark an article as "needs assessed" or "not assessed," simply leave the importance parameter empty, like this: |importance= ) WikiProject Medicine

Requesting an assessment or re-assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article please feel free to list it below. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, contact Project members or enlist it to Peer review instead.

Add articles here! Newest requests on the BOTTOM


  • Acoustic reflex - I added the entire section on the Vocalization-Induced Stapedius Reflex. The phenomenon of the vocalization-induced reflex (an ACTIVE, ever-present effect with important practical and hearing health implications) is eminently more important than the PASSIVE reflex that occurs only when loud sounds are presented.199.196.144.17 (talk) 20:59, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
    • N Not done Needs someone with a background in audiology to assess its completeness for possible upgrade to B class. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Piebaldism - I think I've done the majority of recent contributions to this. It doesn't have an importance assessment rating and it seems to me it should be Low priority. Would welcome an assessment (and hope I've done this correctly). --DI Ramekin (talk) 12:33, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Diabetes mellitus type 1 - I have not changed the article yet, but it seems to me to be in disarray with much stuff that does not belong in the article. I would like to see it reorganized more in accord with pages like coeliac disease. This is a pretty important page an it deserves a good peer-review to get the process going.PB666 yap 13:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
    • N Not done For a formal peer review process, please see WP:PR. To get informal comments from knowledgeable people, let me suggest leaving a note at WT:MED. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:58, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Dracunculiasis - Got an expansion, was previously at B-Class. Any suggestions to improve it further, including if you feel it's deserving of a more formal peer review, are very welcome. - Liontamer (talk) 05:15, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Worklist

The logs in this section are generated automatically ; please don't add entries to them by hand.

Articles are arranged by quality, FA class at the top and un-assessed class towards the bottom.



Contact with WP Medicine
See also: assessed article categories. Last update: July 15, 2008

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