TheWikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month for December 2025 isChronic obstructive pulmonary disease! Head to its talk page to organize our efforts. Continue to nominate topics for future months atWikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Collaboration of the Month#Nominations.

WikiProject Medicine

Project Page
WPMED Newsletter and signup
Manual of style (medicine)
Identifying reliable sources (medicine)
List of participants
Popular pages
Assessment (Log)

How to help:
Article alerts andresources for editors
Articles listed forcleanup ordeletion
Patrol recent changes andsort stubs
Join the hunt for sources
Requested articles

Categories:
Project

Articles byquality andimportance

Aim: to substantially improve a medicine article each month through cooperative editing. This collaboration is part of theWikiProject Medicine project.

Every month we will select a topic from this page to focus our efforts on. Topics may relate to medical basic sciences (anatomy, biochemistry, and so on), or clinical medicine (illnesses, surgical procedures, and so on). The project aims to improve medicine articles, and to give medicine editors an opportunity to collaborate.

Anyone can nominate and vote on articles. You don't have to be involved in the field of medicine to participate. Every opinion is valued, both for article suggestions and to help ensure that articles are not too technical. New articles will be selected at the end of each month.

Anyone is free to nominate an article/topic at any time. Nominations may be made at any time using the following steps:

1. Check pastsuccessful andexpired nominations to make sure your topic hasn't been recently nominated.
2. Edit the list of nominations and paste the following text at thebottom:{{subst:MCOTWnew|article name|your reason for nominating|~~~~}}.
3. To get the attention of any talk page watchers, you can add |MCOTW=nom to the{{WPMED}} template on the article's talk page ex:{{WPMED|class=|importance=|MCOW=nom}}

Super common condition with multiple etiologies, including some brought about by this pandemic, yet the article would need a good update to properly reflect all this!Spyder212 (talk)01:36, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Comments

Listed as GA a little more than seven years ago, it could probably benefit from a round of updating. This would (I hope) not be too difficult, especially ifUser:Doc James and/orUser:Jfdwolff (the original GA nominator and reviewer) were willing to help out.WhatamIdoing (talk)22:16, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support

• Support. Very common, important to get this right.JFW | T@lk13:47, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• support - agreed.Cas Liber (talk·contribs)04:46, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• support --Colin°^Talk07:47, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• supportTylerDurden8823 (talk)08:10, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Good choice.Alexbrn (talk)13:29, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• Glad to see so much interest! I'll update the templates to "run" this for June 2021. If folks prefer to start earlier, certainly feel free to do so. Looking forward to it.Ajpolino (talk)23:47, 14 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've posted a link to some review articles on the article's talk page. Maybe we could spend the next week collecting a few sources, so we're ready to go at the start of June.WhatamIdoing (talk)06:15, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done It's official.Ajpolino (talk)03:35, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Truly awful article with very poor treatment section, of major importance to many people

Support

1. MaryMO (AR) (talk)22:09, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
2. In the UK, breast cancer is the third most common cause of cancer deaths. I suspect this will be more or less true for all Global North, if not the world. Also, most men don't know that they can get it as well.--Victoria (talk)12:48, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments.

The article is currently undergoing a GAR (that was opened under shaky grounds) but the main reason I wanted to nominate this page is because the article could use some re-structuring, updating of old sources (the majority of the sources are from before 2020) and a bit of copyediting. This article has a lot of daily views and deserves the extra attention.

Support

1. IntentionallyDense^(Contribs)06:05, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2. ເສລີພາບ (talk)18:15, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

This was last nominated in 2006. My understanding is that treatment has improved in the last few years allowing for much better patient outcomes. With 242 sources, the sources need some heavy pruning of outdated sources and the information needs to reflect current practice.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/cystic-fibrosis-trikafta-breakthrough-treatment/677471/

Support

1. Daphne Morrow (talk)06:53, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
2. —Femke 🐦 (talk)07:26, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Top-importance C-class article with a maintenance tag. About a quarter million views a year still.—Femke 🐦 (talk)07:56, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support

1. —Femke 🐦 (talk)07:56, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone can vote for as many candidates as they would like. You don't need any special knowledge of medicine to vote. Simply edit theSupport section and sign your account name. Supporting an article will be taken as a sign of your interest in helping improve the article (at least in some small way) if it is selected, but itdoesn't represent a binding commitment.

This project usesapproval voting, so all that matters is the number of "Supports" a topic gets. If you believe a topic is a poor choice for this project, mention your objections in the "Comments" section. At the end of each month, the article with the most votes is normally selected as the new collaboration. In the case of a tie, the article nominated first is normally selected.

To remain in consideration, articles should have at least one new vote per month. If an article fails to achieve this, it may be archived. It can be renominated after at least three months. You can see the archive ofsuccessful nominations.

List of active participants (who may occasionally receive a talk post or ping to discuss project issues):

1. Doc James
2. Peter Coti
3. LT910001
4. JFW | T@lk
5. BakerStMD T|C
6. Matthew Ferguson (talk)
7. --Ozzie10aaaa (talk)
8. --CFCF🍌 (email)
9. TylerDurden8823
10. Tirab (talk)08:49, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
11. SandyGeorgia (Talk)13:53, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
12. Graham Beards (talk)
13. Spyder212 (talk)00:58, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
14. Cas Liber (talk·contribs)18:51, 11 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
15. MaryMO (AR) (talk)18:25, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
16. JenOttawa (talk)14:48, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
17. Victoria (talk)12:49, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History

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

Templates

• {{subst:MCOTMnew}} - to nominate an article on this page.
• {{WPMED}} has parameter|MCOTM= to support this project.|MCOTM=nom for nominees,|MCOTM=cur for the current collaboration topic,|MCOTM=prev for previous collaborations of the month.
• {{CurrentMCOTM}} - the announcement banner at the top of this page. Feel free to leave it somewhere visible to remind you (and others) to keep up with each month's target. Substitute the template ({{subst:CurrentMCOTM}}) for a version where the current collaboration is fixed (e.g. to post on another editor's talk page).
• {{user-MCOTM}} - auserbox advertising the current collaboration of the month.
• {{subst:MCOTMthanks}} - a thank you template that includes the current article.

Project maintenance

• {{Collab-medicine}} contains the name of the current collaboration. Other templates use this to update.

• WikiProject Medicine Collaboration of the Month