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WikiProject Pharmacology
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Welcome toWikiProject Pharmacology. AWikiProject 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 thepharmacology and science ofmedications and other pharmacology-related topics.

• Expand allstubs 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 maintainnavigational boxes formajor 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.)

Looking for something to do?

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See alsothe tool's wiki page andthe index of WikiProjects.

• Missing drugs can be found by looking for red links on the alphabetical listings ofList of drugs, for example:List of drugs: Df-Di
• 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.
• Put{{pharma-stub}} at the bottom of the article.
• After creating, don't forget to start the article's talk page with{{WikiProject Pharmacology|class= |importance= }}.
• Consideradding a structural diagram.

There are several ways to find articles of interest:

• Cleanup listings, which are helpfully sorted by type of problem tag
• WikiProject Pharmacology assessment grid, useful for finding high-importance, low-quality articles, or articles which are ready for a final push across the finish line to be agood article orfeatured article.
• Top 200 US Prescriptions 2011, useful for finding high-profile articles.
• Category:Pharmacology stubs - full of very short articles that are ready to be expanded.

Ideas for specific improvements:

• Add information to theinfoboxes indrug articles.
• Add{{Infobox receptor}} tothe body of articles on GPCRs and other receptor proteins ({{Infobox gene}} should remain in the leads of these articles)
• Add references. Correct andreliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to beverifiable 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 useInternet Explorer orFirefox (2.0+), thenWouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
• Fight againstvandalism. 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]

Need help creating structural diagrams? SeeWikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Structural diagrams. Also seethe Wikipedia Manual of Style on Chemical Structure Diagrams.

• 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.
• Assign importance or quality grade (seeWikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Assessment for the grading scale) to articles inCategory:Unknown-importance pharmacology articles orCategory:Unassessed pharmacology articles.
• Categorize drug articles by adding them to the appropriatecategories (for example, an appropriate subcategory ofCategory: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}}.

• Join indiscussing 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!

• Help to develop theDrugbox anddrug 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.

• Project template:{{WikiProject Pharmacology}}
• Recent changes:{{Recent changes in Pharmacology}}
• Memberuserbox:{{User WikiProject Pharmacology}}
• Member top icon (an alternative to the above):{{WikiProject Pharmacology topicon}}

Infoboxes have been created for a number of article types including:

• {{Infobox drug}} for medications
• {{Infobox drug class}} for classes of medication
• {{Infobox diagnostic}} for diagnostic tests

ATC code navbox templates are listed by ATC code atList of ATC navboxes

Pharmacology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	7				11
FL	1						1
GA	1	19	22	8			50
B	37	236	251	102		39	665
C	55	299	694	611		213	1,872
Start	26	290	1,520	2,089		1,098	5,023
Stub		8	535	4,180		2,472	7,195
List		14	143	110		215	482
Category					1,448		1,448
Disambig					14		14
File					46		46
Project					23		23
Redirect		12	45	98	812		967
Template					401		401
NA					3		3
Other				1	33		34
Assessed	120	882	3,217	7,199	2,780	4,037	18,235
Unassessed				9		204	213
Total	120	882	3,217	7,208	2,780	4,241	18,448
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =77,617			Ω = 5.26

• Assessment details

Featured articles andfeatured lists (indicated by) are considered to beWikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process asfeatured article candidates andfeatured list candidates before being promoted to featured status. Articles and lists in bold indicate that the page has been featured on theMain Page as "Today's featured article" or "Today's featured list" on the date noted.

Featured articles Featured article Main page date Acetic acid December 2, 2005 Antioxidant June 22, 2007 Bupropion December 21, 2007 Management of multiple sclerosis January 25, 2008 Eli Lilly May 11, 2009 Zinc August 21, 2009 Linezolid September 14, 2009 Water fluoridation October 12, 2009 Icos March 13, 2010 Metabolism September 5, 2011 Psilocybin February 29, 2012 Folding@home November 1, 2012 Amphetamine April 3, 2015 Serpin April 2, 2016 beta-Hydroxybeta-methylbutyric acid May 28, 2018

Featured lists Featured list Main page date WHO Model List of Essential Medicines June 5, 2017

Good article GA promotion date Frances Oldham Kelsey May 19, 2006 Metformin January 14, 2007 Percy Lavon Julian February 18, 2007 Doxorubicin May 10, 2007 Clindamycin December 15, 2007 Benzylpiperazine January 1, 2008 Receptor antagonist January 16, 2008 History of aspirin April 9, 2008 Aspirin May 30, 2008 Paracetamol poisoning December 19, 2008 Warfarin January 21, 2009 Serotonin syndrome February 13, 2009 Alprazolam March 14, 2009 Benzodiazepine June 24, 2009

Good article GA promotion date Selective glucocorticoid receptor agonist April 1, 2010 Midazolam April 2, 2010 Mephedrone September 27, 2010 Nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies February 21, 2011 Methoxyflurane June 16, 2011 Methamphetamine January 27, 2014 Adderall December 3, 2014 Norepinephrine February 7, 2016 Dopamine March 15, 2016 Collaborative practice agreement November 7, 2017 Vitamin C November 27, 2017 Rabeprazole December 14, 2017

Articles for deletion

• 08 Nov 2025 –Intravenous marijuana syndrome(talk · edit · hist) was AfDed byQoopyQoopy(t · c); seediscussion(3 participants;relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 23 Nov 2025 –Posdinemab(talk · edit · hist) was PRODed byВикидим(t · c):WP:SIGCOV not shown: apparently all sources are from the employees of J&J, the drug maker, or its affiliates.
• 23 Nov 2025 –Farabursen(talk · edit · hist) was PRODed byВикидим(t · c):WP:SIGCOV not shown: there appears to be just one independent source, all other materials are associated with the drug maker.

Redirects for discussion

• 12 Nov 2025 –Esiderm H(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Epiderm H(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Eldecort(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Eldercort(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Efcortelin(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Dricort(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –EF corlin(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Efcorbin(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Efcortelan(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion
• 12 Nov 2025 –Domolene-HC(talk · edit · hist) →Cortisol was RfDed byMyceteae(t · c); seediscussion

(30 more...)

Featured article candidates

• 01 Nov 2025 –History of penicillin(talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated byHawkeye7(t · c); seediscussion

Good article nominees

• 23 Dec 2024 –Modafinil(talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated byMaxim Masiutin(t · c); startdiscussion

Good article reassessments

• 22 Nov 2025 –Amino acid(talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment byZ1720(t · c); seediscussion

Articles to be merged

• 06 Sep 2025 –CeraVe(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging toHyram Yarbro byTiggerjay(t · c); seediscussion

Articles to be split

• 13 Aug 2025 –Fluticasone furoate(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting byGetPossessed(t · c); seediscussion
• 03 Aug 2025 –Pharmacopoeia(talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting byAukusRuckus(t · c); seediscussion

Articles for creation

• 24 Nov 2025 –Draft:Dr. Max Group(talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC byRickos11(t · c)
• 20 Nov 2025 –Draft:Md. Sayedur Rahman(talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC byProf. Md. Sayedur Rahman(t · c)
• 27 Apr 2025 –Draft:Non-hallucinogenic psychedelic(talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC byOro Temp(t · c)

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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:

	{{subst:The Pharmacology Barnstar|message ~~~~|alt}}	The Pharmacology Barnstar fromWikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject
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	[[File:Encephalon Cross.svg|frame|center|'''The Encephalon Cross''' message ~~~~]]	The Encephalon CrossFor commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced and designed byEncephalon.
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Here is alist 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.

Recent changes in WP:Pharmacology
In the most popular articles (source) In project articles(+ talkpages) In all pages(+ talkpages) In articles with {{Infobox drug}}(+ talkpages)
List overview · Updated: 2016-12-03 · This box: v t

• 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 toL-methylfolate, alsoWikipedia articles needing clarification (October 2011), Articles with unsourced statements (December 2011, May 2010), Vague or ambiguous time (October 2011)

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