Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Pathology task force
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The Pathology task force of WikiProject Medicine aims to better organize information in the articles related to Pathology and its subsidiaries including anatomic pathology, clinical pathology/laboratory medicine and investigative pathology.
Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease. It is also a collection of medical specialities which focus on the diagnosis of disease based on changes in microscopic morphology and the determination of death, which includes forensic pathology. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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== Goals ==
The overall goal of the pathology task force is to make Wikipedia the most comprehensive pathology resource for the public. Specific goals of the task force are:
- Refine sections of existing medicine articles pertaining to mechanisms of disease
- Ensure that articles created on pathology topics are thoroughly referenced and include up-to-date links to the most recent literature
- Explain the use of evidence-based medicine in pathology
- Maintain consistency per WP:MEDMOS on pathology articles
- Produce pathology-themed featured articles based on the above
- Strenghten the articles related to forensics
- Increase the number of images attached to articles - making use of freely available images from places like:
- Wikicommons - see: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikicommons Main Page], [http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=KGH KGH], [http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wikimedia.org&img_user_text=Nephron Nephron]
- [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pathology Pathology Wikibook] and its more advanced [http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pathologie German version]
Participants
All Wikipedians are welcome to join! You need no medical expertise or specific pathology expertise in order to contribute to this task force.
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| Nephron T|C 20:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
| Anatomical pathology, Pathology of the Kidney, Forensic pathology |
| Rustavo T|C 05:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC) |
| JFW | T@lk 21:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
| General pathology |
| jdln | Jdln 12:40, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
| Coagulation, hematopathology, transfusion medicine |
| Hovea
| Anatomical pathology, Pathology of the Eye, Histology, Anatomy |
| Nanomed Dreams 05:36, 13 November 2007 (UTC) |
| Haymanj 1300, 05 March 2008 (UTC)
| Anatomical pathology, Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, Medical/Pathology History |
| Emmanuelm 9 January 2008 (UTC)
| Pathology, Cancer |
| Mattopaedia Have a yarn23:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC) |
| Skittleys (talk) 19:51, 20 July 2008 (UTC) |
| ClockworkSoul 07:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC) |
| Renaissancee (talk) 07:16, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
| Forensic Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Clinical Pathology |
| Uploadvirus T|C 23:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC) |
| Snow (talk) 23:38, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
| General pathology, Pathophysiology, Neuropathology, pathology in general diagnostic medicine. |
| Alistairirvine (talk) 14:27, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
| Genetic influences on susceptibility to pathology. |
| Netha (talk) 04:04, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
| Histopathology |
| Figgep (talk) 12:43, 20 September 2017 (UTC) |
Articles
=Preferred Nomenclature (see talk page)=
Experimental pathology preferred to Investigative pathology
Clinical pathology preferred to Laboratory medicine
Clinical chemistry preferred to Chemical pathology
Anatomical pathology preferred to Anatomic pathology
=Articles needing creation or improvement=
Improving the quality of the "core" pages listed on the template {{tl|pathology}} (see below) is a top priority for the project. Note that some of the "tools" pages (e.g. electron microscopy) are well-developed but lack coverage of the topic in the context of pathology
See especially:
- Forensic pathology
- Clinical pathology
- Clinical chemistry
- Transfusion medicine
- Medical microbiology
- Dental pathology
- Coroner (given that, in most countries outside the US, the coroner is entirely a medical position filled by a pathologist)
Also see {{cl|Pathology stubs}} and {{cl|Pathology articles needing expert attention}}.
=Articles needing images/better images=
Statistics
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Special articles
=[[WP:DYK|Did you know articles]]=
None at this time
=[[WP:FA|Featured articles]]=
=[[WP:GA|Good articles]]=
None at this time
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Templates
=Pathology templates=
{{tl|pathology-stub}} - Marks stub articles related to pathology subspecialties, tools, and techniques, as well as gross pathology and histopathology - related entities.
{{tl|pathology}} - Yields the "blue box" for major pages:
{{pathology}}
= Project notice =
The template for marking an article as part of the Pathology task force is part of the WikiProject Medicine banner, {{tl|WPMED}}. It can be inserted into an article's talkpage with:
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The first "importance" parameter is the subject's importance to the overall field of medicine, according to the guidelines here. The importance of a subject to the field of pathology should be listed with the "pathology-imp" parameter.