This page can be used to gauge support for potential task forces under WikiProject Medicine before starting one.
To propose a task force, write a brief description (including links to the related Wikipedia articles), and add it along with your name to the list below (in chronological order). Some boilerplate you can use:
=== (Name of task force) === '''Description:''' [description here] ~~~~ '''Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)''' # ~~~~ '''Discussion:''' * '''Comment''' (or '''Oppose''' or other indicators)
To attract members from outside WikiProject Medicine, you might also want to post at note at the task force section of the pan-Wiki proposal page. A small number of one-time announcements on the talk pages of key articles and related WikiProjects may also be appropriate.
If you are interested in any of the task forces listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list under Interested Wikipedians and start contributing to the relevant articles. The discussion section of each proposal is designed for expressing support, opposition, or any other comments or concerns, whether or not you intend to join the task force. When adding to a discussion, please provide your rationale for support or opposition; this is not a numerical vote.
*'''Support''' - [Rationale for support] *'''Oppose''' - [Rationale for opposition] *'''Neutral''' - [Concerns or suggestions]
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Task forces#Task_force_creation_guidelines
Description: The preventive healthcare task force would collaborate to create, edit, and verify health information related to the practice of preventive medicine, the science supporting the medical practices that are employed, and clarifying active areas of research, controversies and myths in the field of preventive healthcare . -- losrivas ( talk) 03:14, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Related Articles:
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Neglected tropical disease task force aims to better organize information in relation to neglected tropical diseases as defined by the World Health Organisation.Neglected tropical diseases cause human suffering and death particularly in the poorest regions of the world with poor socioeconomic growth. Drsoumyadeepb ( talk) 04:21, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Invitations Would you all be interested User:DoctorJoeE , , User:Zszabo81, and User:Edgar181?
User:Doc_JamesHow does a proposed Taskforce gets accepted and how many people required? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsoumyadeepb ( talk • contribs) 15:58, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Description: A task force to help curate the Wikipedia articles relating to orthopaedics, based around the T&O portal, which are currently lacking in content and knowledge compared to other specialities.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: A task force for the changing and expanding profession of podiatric medicine.
Articles of relation:
Podiatry Podiatrist Foot and ankle surgery
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: I would like to create a task force focussing on Neurofibromatosis as it's own field. I have been updating NF-related pages and I find that my edits go unchallenged, which worries me. Here are NF-related pages that I have edited which I would tag with the NF task force in the Discussion page if people like the idea:
Erxnmedia ( talk) 13:14, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: [description here, and author to please sign the description with four tildes]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: This idea needs a more inclusive name, but I'm thinking of something that would cover outdated theories, new-but-not-accepted ideas, all WP:FRINGEy articles, a good deal of alternative medicine, and the like. Re-discovering Wilson's temperature syndrome and the strange changes recently made at Leukemia#Causes_and_risk_factors is what got me thinking about it. Potential categories of interest include:
Specific articles probably include anything named Health effects of ____ or ____ and health.
My goal is a cross-disciplinary noticeboard that might interest some people at WP:FTN, WP:SKEPTIC, WP:WPHOS, and perhaps WP:ALTMED; without interest from people outside the WPMED core group, then it's probably not worth starting an extra page for this. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Endocrinology is a major area of medicine, and it should have its own task force, plus there is allot of articles that need to be cleaned up, expanded and created. Maen. K. A. ( talk) 13:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Health informatics is the science of applying information science and information technology in health. It is an important field, that is growing, and wikipedia has a number of articles already but that are in need of some more serious attention. Look at Category:Medical informatics and Category:Health informatics - I recently added a category Category:Health informaticians that attempts to gather together some of the informaticians who have profiles but many more bios could and should be created of some of the leaders in this field. Karl.brown ( talk) 21:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Occupational medicine is a multidisciplinary field covering traditional medicine, several alternative medicine fields, business practices, insurance policy and many other areas both within and without medicine. Obviously related articles include: physical therapy, tendinitis, lumbar epidural steroid injection, anterior cruciate ligament injury, rotator cuff tear, spinal fusion, radiculopathy, Workers' compensation, Waddell's signs, and an untold number of redlinks. Most of the work associated with this task force would likely have to do with expanding coverage of medical treatment as used in this field. —/ Mendaliv/ 2¢/ Δ's/ 01:48, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: The Anesthesia page is currently in constant turmoil due to constant edits from political parties adding talking points. My goal is to keep the page from becoming about politics and maintain it. There have been many attempts by moderators to keep the peace without success. Mmackinnon ( talk) 03:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Surgery is a huge area in medicine that demands coverage on this project. Much to my surprise, this has not been addressed yet. There is a vast amount of articles out there on wikipedia that need cleaned up and improved as well as ones waiting to be created. Tyrol5 [Talk] 01:07, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Murtaza Amirali
Discussion:
Description: Otolaryngology and head and neck surgery is a fast developing speciality. A separate task force is a must. Drtbalu ( talk) 13:25, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: The most common cause of all diseases in the world today is autoimmune diseases. The current article on autoimmune disease lists about 46 accepted or suspected autoimmune caused diseases. This is no where near a complete list which would probably be comprised of a couple hundred diseases (Researchers have identified 80-100 different autoimmune diseases and suspect at least 40 additional diseases of having an autoimmune basis, though it may be significantly more than this). In fact, I have not found a good list anywhere, tending to leave out a number of lesser known suspected autoimmune diseases (e.g. Dercum's disease). This ought to be remedied. The list of cutaneous conditions has nearly been expanded into oblivion, why shouldn't autoimmune diseases get the same level of attention and consideration? Also, there are a number of articles pertaining to autoimmune diseases that need cleaning up, updates to conform their content to modern thinking, and general expansion.
Immunology would cover autoimmune diseases along with hypersensitivities, immune deficiencies, etc. Fishmuffin 17:55, 8 August 2010 (UTC - 4)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Major advances have been done in recent years in the field of Rheumatology, linked to a better knowledge of disease mechanisms and to the introduction of new classes of drugs which have revolutionized the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Wikipedia coverage of rheumatology is far from being complete, and many articles do not reflect this explosive progress and need substantial revision.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion: It seems that the proposed taskforces on autoimmunity and rheumatology have not raised much interest so far. My proposal would be to merge the two proposals - which overlap in many aspects- in a "Rheumatology/Autoimmune diseases" taskforce.-- Dr. Pereira ( talk) 15:54, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Encompassing the field of hospital medicine and general inpatient care: [Wikipedia seems the ideal platform for collaborating on collating/synthesizing the best practices/research/literature on inpatient care. While in the US this is typically referred to as Hospital medicine, I find inpatient care more inclusive of other non-medical specialities (rehab, geriatrics, alc, psychiatry) that also deel with the challenges of coordinating care within a complex institution.] Laith Bustani ( talk) 03:57, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Intensive Care or Critical care is an essential department of any modern hospital and is a rapdily growing speciality. Intensive care encompasses the craft of providing care to the critically unwell patients. The impact of this field of Medicine is extremely significant from the Physician, Patient and the general public's perspective. Combining age-old clinical wisdom, incorporating cutting edge scientific research, advanced technology with providing patient-centred, empathetic care, this highly-advanced and ever-changing field of Medicine transgressing many vertically separated knowledge domains of Medicine requires the contribution of experts and non-experts alike in the building of a contemporanous repository of information relating to this field of medicine, to make a difference to the lives of the critically unwell patients and their families.It warrants its own task force to look after relevant articles within the project. -- Balaji.md au ( talk) 22:43, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Basalisk inspect damage⁄ berate 14:53, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Sports medicine is something that is of interest to a variety of HCPs as well as the general public. Coverage of professional sports often touches on acute and chronic injuries, clinical outcomes, diagnostic techniques and it would be useful to provide reliable information to the general public. Additionally, amateur athletes experience injuries and would benefit from a free, reliable resource. Mrfrobinson ( talk) 22:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: The purpose of the ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Project ( project page) is to improve the coverage of epilepsy related articles on Wikipedia. This would involve tagging the existing articles, assessing their quality, making a to do list for those articles, making the changes, submitting them for evaluation by epilepsy experts, and to make further changes as needed. The scope will also extend to creation of new articles either using article drafts and new article review process or by overall following the process delineated above. You can learn further by reading a more detailed project plan. The project aims to bridge the gap between academia and Wikipedia and to create a community of epilepsy professionals on Wikipedia. I have been selected as the editor in chief of the project ( news) and would be facilitating the process. Members from Wikimedia Medicine and WikiEdu are providing active support. Creation of 'epilepsy task force' will help in tagging the epilepsy articles (even though there is an 'neurology' taskforce existing, the scope is slightly different) and thus will help in streamlining the efforts. Diptanshu 💬 09:38, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
"Proposing a task force" says "To propose a task force, write a brief description (including links to the related Wikipedia articles), and add it along with your name to the list below (in chronological order)." Do you mean add it to the top or bottom of the list? Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 13:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
This page can be used to gauge support for potential task forces under WikiProject Medicine before starting one.
To propose a task force, write a brief description (including links to the related Wikipedia articles), and add it along with your name to the list below (in chronological order). Some boilerplate you can use:
=== (Name of task force) === '''Description:''' [description here] ~~~~ '''Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)''' # ~~~~ '''Discussion:''' * '''Comment''' (or '''Oppose''' or other indicators)
To attract members from outside WikiProject Medicine, you might also want to post at note at the task force section of the pan-Wiki proposal page. A small number of one-time announcements on the talk pages of key articles and related WikiProjects may also be appropriate.
If you are interested in any of the task forces listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list under Interested Wikipedians and start contributing to the relevant articles. The discussion section of each proposal is designed for expressing support, opposition, or any other comments or concerns, whether or not you intend to join the task force. When adding to a discussion, please provide your rationale for support or opposition; this is not a numerical vote.
*'''Support''' - [Rationale for support] *'''Oppose''' - [Rationale for opposition] *'''Neutral''' - [Concerns or suggestions]
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Task forces#Task_force_creation_guidelines
Description: The preventive healthcare task force would collaborate to create, edit, and verify health information related to the practice of preventive medicine, the science supporting the medical practices that are employed, and clarifying active areas of research, controversies and myths in the field of preventive healthcare . -- losrivas ( talk) 03:14, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Related Articles:
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Neglected tropical disease task force aims to better organize information in relation to neglected tropical diseases as defined by the World Health Organisation.Neglected tropical diseases cause human suffering and death particularly in the poorest regions of the world with poor socioeconomic growth. Drsoumyadeepb ( talk) 04:21, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Invitations Would you all be interested User:DoctorJoeE , , User:Zszabo81, and User:Edgar181?
User:Doc_JamesHow does a proposed Taskforce gets accepted and how many people required? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsoumyadeepb ( talk • contribs) 15:58, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Description: A task force to help curate the Wikipedia articles relating to orthopaedics, based around the T&O portal, which are currently lacking in content and knowledge compared to other specialities.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: A task force for the changing and expanding profession of podiatric medicine.
Articles of relation:
Podiatry Podiatrist Foot and ankle surgery
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: I would like to create a task force focussing on Neurofibromatosis as it's own field. I have been updating NF-related pages and I find that my edits go unchallenged, which worries me. Here are NF-related pages that I have edited which I would tag with the NF task force in the Discussion page if people like the idea:
Erxnmedia ( talk) 13:14, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: [description here, and author to please sign the description with four tildes]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: This idea needs a more inclusive name, but I'm thinking of something that would cover outdated theories, new-but-not-accepted ideas, all WP:FRINGEy articles, a good deal of alternative medicine, and the like. Re-discovering Wilson's temperature syndrome and the strange changes recently made at Leukemia#Causes_and_risk_factors is what got me thinking about it. Potential categories of interest include:
Specific articles probably include anything named Health effects of ____ or ____ and health.
My goal is a cross-disciplinary noticeboard that might interest some people at WP:FTN, WP:SKEPTIC, WP:WPHOS, and perhaps WP:ALTMED; without interest from people outside the WPMED core group, then it's probably not worth starting an extra page for this. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Endocrinology is a major area of medicine, and it should have its own task force, plus there is allot of articles that need to be cleaned up, expanded and created. Maen. K. A. ( talk) 13:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Health informatics is the science of applying information science and information technology in health. It is an important field, that is growing, and wikipedia has a number of articles already but that are in need of some more serious attention. Look at Category:Medical informatics and Category:Health informatics - I recently added a category Category:Health informaticians that attempts to gather together some of the informaticians who have profiles but many more bios could and should be created of some of the leaders in this field. Karl.brown ( talk) 21:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Occupational medicine is a multidisciplinary field covering traditional medicine, several alternative medicine fields, business practices, insurance policy and many other areas both within and without medicine. Obviously related articles include: physical therapy, tendinitis, lumbar epidural steroid injection, anterior cruciate ligament injury, rotator cuff tear, spinal fusion, radiculopathy, Workers' compensation, Waddell's signs, and an untold number of redlinks. Most of the work associated with this task force would likely have to do with expanding coverage of medical treatment as used in this field. —/ Mendaliv/ 2¢/ Δ's/ 01:48, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: The Anesthesia page is currently in constant turmoil due to constant edits from political parties adding talking points. My goal is to keep the page from becoming about politics and maintain it. There have been many attempts by moderators to keep the peace without success. Mmackinnon ( talk) 03:09, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Surgery is a huge area in medicine that demands coverage on this project. Much to my surprise, this has not been addressed yet. There is a vast amount of articles out there on wikipedia that need cleaned up and improved as well as ones waiting to be created. Tyrol5 [Talk] 01:07, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Murtaza Amirali
Discussion:
Description: Otolaryngology and head and neck surgery is a fast developing speciality. A separate task force is a must. Drtbalu ( talk) 13:25, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: The most common cause of all diseases in the world today is autoimmune diseases. The current article on autoimmune disease lists about 46 accepted or suspected autoimmune caused diseases. This is no where near a complete list which would probably be comprised of a couple hundred diseases (Researchers have identified 80-100 different autoimmune diseases and suspect at least 40 additional diseases of having an autoimmune basis, though it may be significantly more than this). In fact, I have not found a good list anywhere, tending to leave out a number of lesser known suspected autoimmune diseases (e.g. Dercum's disease). This ought to be remedied. The list of cutaneous conditions has nearly been expanded into oblivion, why shouldn't autoimmune diseases get the same level of attention and consideration? Also, there are a number of articles pertaining to autoimmune diseases that need cleaning up, updates to conform their content to modern thinking, and general expansion.
Immunology would cover autoimmune diseases along with hypersensitivities, immune deficiencies, etc. Fishmuffin 17:55, 8 August 2010 (UTC - 4)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Major advances have been done in recent years in the field of Rheumatology, linked to a better knowledge of disease mechanisms and to the introduction of new classes of drugs which have revolutionized the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Wikipedia coverage of rheumatology is far from being complete, and many articles do not reflect this explosive progress and need substantial revision.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion: It seems that the proposed taskforces on autoimmunity and rheumatology have not raised much interest so far. My proposal would be to merge the two proposals - which overlap in many aspects- in a "Rheumatology/Autoimmune diseases" taskforce.-- Dr. Pereira ( talk) 15:54, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Encompassing the field of hospital medicine and general inpatient care: [Wikipedia seems the ideal platform for collaborating on collating/synthesizing the best practices/research/literature on inpatient care. While in the US this is typically referred to as Hospital medicine, I find inpatient care more inclusive of other non-medical specialities (rehab, geriatrics, alc, psychiatry) that also deel with the challenges of coordinating care within a complex institution.] Laith Bustani ( talk) 03:57, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Intensive Care or Critical care is an essential department of any modern hospital and is a rapdily growing speciality. Intensive care encompasses the craft of providing care to the critically unwell patients. The impact of this field of Medicine is extremely significant from the Physician, Patient and the general public's perspective. Combining age-old clinical wisdom, incorporating cutting edge scientific research, advanced technology with providing patient-centred, empathetic care, this highly-advanced and ever-changing field of Medicine transgressing many vertically separated knowledge domains of Medicine requires the contribution of experts and non-experts alike in the building of a contemporanous repository of information relating to this field of medicine, to make a difference to the lives of the critically unwell patients and their families.It warrants its own task force to look after relevant articles within the project. -- Balaji.md au ( talk) 22:43, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
Basalisk inspect damage⁄ berate 14:53, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: Sports medicine is something that is of interest to a variety of HCPs as well as the general public. Coverage of professional sports often touches on acute and chronic injuries, clinical outcomes, diagnostic techniques and it would be useful to provide reliable information to the general public. Additionally, amateur athletes experience injuries and would benefit from a free, reliable resource. Mrfrobinson ( talk) 22:57, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
Description: The purpose of the ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Project ( project page) is to improve the coverage of epilepsy related articles on Wikipedia. This would involve tagging the existing articles, assessing their quality, making a to do list for those articles, making the changes, submitting them for evaluation by epilepsy experts, and to make further changes as needed. The scope will also extend to creation of new articles either using article drafts and new article review process or by overall following the process delineated above. You can learn further by reading a more detailed project plan. The project aims to bridge the gap between academia and Wikipedia and to create a community of epilepsy professionals on Wikipedia. I have been selected as the editor in chief of the project ( news) and would be facilitating the process. Members from Wikimedia Medicine and WikiEdu are providing active support. Creation of 'epilepsy task force' will help in tagging the epilepsy articles (even though there is an 'neurology' taskforce existing, the scope is slightly different) and thus will help in streamlining the efforts. Diptanshu 💬 09:38, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Discussion:
"Proposing a task force" says "To propose a task force, write a brief description (including links to the related Wikipedia articles), and add it along with your name to the list below (in chronological order)." Do you mean add it to the top or bottom of the list? Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 13:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)