Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Pathology task force

Welcome to this medicine task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the Medicine talk page, the centralized point for discussion, thank you.

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: Wikicommons Main Page, KGH, Nephron
  • Pathology Wikibook and its more advanced 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.

User/Signature	Special Interests (if any)
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)	Anatomical pathology, Molecular pathology, Cancer
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)	Anatomical pathology
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)	Anatomical Pathology, Forensic Pathology
Skittleys (talk) 19:51, 20 July 2008 (UTC)	Forensic Pathology, Anatomical Pathology
ClockworkSoul 07:10, 5 March 2009 (UTC)	Molecular pathology
Renaissancee (talk) 07:16, 26 December 2009 (UTC)	Forensic Pathology, Anatomical Pathology, Clinical Pathology
Uploadvirus  T|C 23:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)	Lung Cancer, Sarcoma, Molecular Pathology
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)	Anatomical pathology, Molecular pathology, Cancer

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 {{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:

• Pathology
• Molecular pathology
• Cytopathology

• pap smear
• pap stain

• 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 Category:Pathology stubs and Category:Pathology articles needing expert attention.

Articles needing images/better images

• Autopsy
• Intratubular germ cell neoplasia
• Spermatocytic seminoma

Statistics

WikiProject Medicine assessment statistics Medicine articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 14 19 23 63 FL 2 3 9 14 FM 74 74 GA 30 47 112 183 1 373 B 57 427 1,317 1,735 30 3,566 C 5 415 3,173 7,666 171 11,430 Start 136 4,597 17,853 1 382 22,969 Stub 1,603 9,993 500 12,096 List 22 268 566 16 872 Category 10,709 10,709 Disambig 172 172 File 479 479 Portal 540 540 Project 168 168 Redirect 454 834 5,900 7,188 Template 1,727 1,727 NA 10 10 Draft 6 282 288 Assessed 99 1,063 11,546 38,868 20,062 1,100 72,738 Unassessed 1 1 80 82 Total 99 1,063 11,547 38,869 20,062 1,180 72,820 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 244,591 Ω = 4.84 worklist • log • category

Pathology task force assessment statistics Pathology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 1 3 FL 1 1 GA 1 1 B 3 7 29 12 15 66 C 2 11 34 48 51 146 Start 2 13 57 84 131 287 Stub 1 15 62 61 139 List 1 1 1 1 4 Category 217 217 Redirect 3 5 16 24 Template 8 8 NA 1 1 Assessed 7 34 142 212 243 259 897 Unassessed 1 1 Total 7 34 142 212 243 260 898 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 3,053 Ω = 4.76 worklist • log • category

More stats are found here.

Special articles

Did you know articles

None at this time

Featured articles

• Cholangiocarcinoma

Good articles

None at this time

Pathology Category tree

Articles

Pathology

Pathologists

Anatomical pathology

Biopsy

Cancer pathology

Clinical pathology

Cytopathology

Forensic pathology

Human pathological metabolites

Insect pathology

Lymphatic pathology

Medical photography and illustration

Neuropathology

Nosology

Paleopathology

Pathology journals

Pathology organizations

Pathophysiology

Phytopathology

Speech and language pathology

Virulence factors

Pathology stubs

Task force

Pathology task force articles

Pathology articles by importance

Pathology articles by quality

Lists

No lists as of yet

Templates

Pathology templates

{{pathology-stub}} - Marks stub articles related to pathology subspecialties, tools, and techniques, as well as gross pathology and histopathology - related entities.

{{pathology}} - Yields the "blue box" for major pages:

Project notice

The template for marking an article as part of the Pathology task force is part of the WikiProject Medicine banner, {{WPMED}}. It can be inserted into an article's talkpage with:

{{WPMED |class= |importance= |pathology=yes |pathology-imp= }}

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.