User:Madhero88/Cardiologytaskforce/Collaborate


 * Stay in touch. Put this page on your watchlist, along with any task forces that interest you, so you can keep up with announcements and stay in touch with other members.
 * Join a task force. If you are interested in a specific topic area, then join one or more of our task forces.  Most task forces keep a separate list of their most important projects and would be happy to have a new member!
 * Work together. Join in the team effort to improve selected articles in the Collaboration of the Week. Everyone from subject-matter experts to normal readers is welcome!

Other ideas
Would you like to help, but you're not really quite sure what to do? Have an hour free and want to try something different? WikiProject Medicine has many tasks that any editor can do. You don't have to be a physician or have specialized knowledge.


 * Edit articles
 * Adopt a stub! There are thousands of stubby medicine-related articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Categories containing these stub articles are and .  Add sources and information, and remove the stub template when it's no longer a stub.
 * Create a new article. Many medicine-related articles have been requested for creation. New articles and significantly expanded stubs qualify for our Missing Article Trophy contest and Wikipedia's Did you know?, so be sure to share your achievements with us.
 * Improve existing articles. Some articles want expert attention, but most need help that anyone can provide.  Alternatively, focus your efforts on the most important issues, or choose any article that interests you from our top-importance or high-importance articles.
 * Add high-quality references. Correct and reliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to be a verifiable source of information for our readers. Adding references is easy with this tool. Just submit the PubMed ID and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between Alternatively, if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox (2.0+), then Wouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
 * Add images. Add requested pictures, also listed in.


 * Work behind the scenes
 * Help evaluate articles nominated for deletion. Help identify deletion discussions that relate to medicine.  Figure out whether these articles with unclear notability should be deleted.
 * Help maintain the Medicine Portal. The maintainers would be happy to tell you what needs to be done.
 * Recruit members. Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in medicine to contribute to Wikipedia.  Invite good editors to join us.  See this section for handy message templates.
 * Tag the talk pages of medicine-related articles. Add   , and assess the article according to our assessment scale.
 * Sort stubs. See the list of specific stub templates.  Replacing stub or med-stub with a more specific template is very helpful.
 * Improve categorization of articles. Several popular Wikipedia categories like Medicine and Category:Diseases and disorders need people to sort articles into more specific subcategories.  Tools like HotCat may make this easier.


 * Fight spam and vandalism
 * Remove inappropriate external links. Some medicine-related articles attract inappropriate links, such as internet chat boards and advertisements.  You can review the external links in any article, or you can use Special:Linksearch to find articles containing a specific link, such as *.clinicaltrials.gov or *.groups.yahoo.com  Details available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
 * Check for vandalism in recent changes in our top-importance articles and our high-importance articles.