Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Reproductive medicine task force



Welcome to the Reproductive medicine task force of WikiProject Medicine!

Scope
Articles related to reproductive medicine, epecially birth control, but practically including almost everything related to obstetrics and gynecology.

Participants
Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.


 * - IVF
 * -sexually transmitted infections, pathogenic bacteria, neonatal infections, oncobacteria
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * -sexually transmitted infections, pathogenic bacteria, neonatal infections, oncobacteria
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception
 * - sperm biology, male and unisex contraception

Tagging and assessment
Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding  to the WPMED project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details). This will automatically place the article into the correct category.

The reproductive-imp parameter may be used to indicate the importance of the topic within reproductive medicine. If it is not specified, then the general WPMED importance will be used.

Please remember that improving articles is ultimately much more important than tagging them.

Templates

 * Abortion
 * Infobox abortion method - Information side box
 * Abortion - Navigation bottom box
 * Birth control
 * Infobox Birth control - Information side box
 * Birth control methods - Navigation bottom box
 * Condom - Navigation bottom box
 * Menstrual cycle - Navigation bottom box, includes the FA related articles, LAM, and Extended cycle combined oral contraceptive pill
 * Pregnancy
 * Obstetrical procedures - Navigation bottom box
 * Pathology of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium Navigation bottom box
 * Pregnancy - Navigation bottom box
 * Reproduction & Embryology
 * Development of circulatory system - Navigation bottom box
 * Development of digestive system - Navigation bottom box
 * Development of nervous system - Navigation bottom box
 * Development of respiratory system - Navigation bottom box
 * Development of urinary and reproductive systems - Navigation bottom box
 * Embryology - Navigation bottom box
 * Embryology of head and neck - Navigation bottom box
 * Reproductive physiology - Navigation bottom box
 * Sexual health
 * Diseases of the pelvis and genitals - Navigation bottom box
 * Reproductive health - Navigation bottom box, includes Family planning
 * STD/STI - Navigation bottom box
 * For main project templates, see the main project page.

Categories
This task force improves articles related to reproductive medicine in these categories:


 * Category:Birth control
 * Category:Human reproduction
 * Category:Pregnancy
 * Category:Fertility
 * Category:Sexual health

Journal summarizing
Journal summarizing is the activity of subscribing to (or by other means regularly getting access to) an academic journal and briefly summarizing its entries in Wikipedia. Often, information given in the abstract is enough for a summary. These summaries are written at the appropriate location in Wikipedia. Sometimes, multiple locations are needed, such as for example a study on the adverse effects of a disease in pregnancy having an summary both at the Wikipedia article on the disease itself as well as in Intercurrent disease in pregnancy. Many journal articles have keywords listed, which can help in finding appropriate locations in Wikipedia by finding the Wikipedia articles corresponding to those keywords.

As of November 2013, academic journals in obstetrics and gynecology that are being regularly summarized are:
 * Human Reproduction Update, by Mikael Häggström, making summaries on approximately 80% of the articles in this journal since 2012
 * OB/GYN articles from The New England Journal of Medicine, by Mikael Häggström, since October 2013

You can adopt a journal as well! OB/GYN journals needing summarizing include: You can start by only summarizing the review articles of the journal, since summarizing wp:primary sources (that is, the original research) needs particular care and the resultant summaries have a greater risk of being reverted if not being written with attention to e.g. wp:neutral point of view. Reviews, on the other hand, should already be written in a rather neutral point of view, and are thus easier to start working on. Don't forget to add the journal article as references. If you see the DOI or PMID of the journal article, you can simply add them as for example   or   
 * OB/GYN articles from The Lancet, ranked second in impact factor among general medical journals in 2012.
 * BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. It is formerly known as British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
 * AJOG
 * EJOG: European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
 * Obstetrics & Gynecology (journal)
 * Placenta (journal)

You'll notice that the Wikipedia articles often need creation of a new section, some reorganizing of content, and sometimes removal of obsolete and/or unreferenced text before adding the summary. These edits are just as welcome as the addition of the summary itself. Rarely, there is no article for the study topic of interest, and a new one needs to be created. In case of any uncertainty, don't hesitate to ask at the Reproductive medicine task force talk page.

Other things to do

 * Improve articles in Category:Methods of birth control
 * Standardize section names and section order per our recommended system
 * For hormonal contraception-related articles, organize comprehensive "Mechanism of action" and "Side effects/complications" sections in a central location or locations (Progestogen only contraception is a candidate for such a location) and link summary-style sections in all the hormonal contraception articles to these comprehensive sections.
 * Add things here!

Cleanup
Last cleanup listing by WolterBot was performed on database snapshot as of March 12, 2010.

Related projects

 * WikiProject Sexology and sexuality
 * WikiProject Pharmacology
 * WikiProject Abortion (currently inactive)