Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Good article review

Current nominations:

Good article nominees

Good article reassessments

About this page
This is a centralized reference page for advising editors who are seeking advice about developing a health article to Good Article status, for publicizing articles nominated for GA review, and to coordinate reviewers once the review process is in progress.

This is also a place to plan for increased editor participation and to promote a more communal and supportive approach to Good Article development, review, and maintained. Discussions about best practices for Good Article assessment protocols are standardized here. These practices have historically been variable and participants here wish for consistent peer review.

How to nominate an article for GA

 * E.g. to nominate Influenza, open the corresponding talkpage, Talk:Influenza, click "edit" and paste  at the top of the talk page.

Attract reviewers to conduct the GA

 * Soon after nomination, a notification for other editors will be automatically added to this page, the main GAN page, and the WikiProject Medicine article alerts page
 * It is a good idea to contact any editors who have shown prior interest in the article and ask them if they are interested in contributing to the review
 * Paste a notification on the WikiProject Medicine talk page, which may attract an editor with specialized knowledge in that area
 * Consider contacting some academics who specialize in the topic to see if they would be interested in looking over the article. A good way to select such individuals is to look at the sources for the article and make a list of the corresponding emails for the authors. Indeed, an academic might be more interested to review the page if they are informed that some of their publications were referenced. Do not be afraid to contact several, the worst that can happen is they ignore you or say no. Provide a link to the article and a link to the GA review page. It may be more understandable to use the term peer review instead of good article assessment.

Who can conduct a GA assessment for medical articles?

 * You do not have to be a health care professional to review a medical article on Wikipedia
 * Medical articles need to be understandable to a general encyclopedic audience.
 * Articles on medical topics are assessed against the same criteria as other Wikipedia articles. This means that you are not permitted to require compliance with the Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles ("MEDMOS").
 * For information on what constitutes a reliable source, see the guideline on identifying reliable sources for medicine-related articles ("MEDRS"). For Good articles, all sources must meet the minimum standard for a reliable source to support the specific statement in question; they need not be the best possible sources.

Criteria
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