Wikipedia:WikiProject Pharmacology/Collaboration of the Week

The Pharmacology Collaboration of the Month is a project of WikiProject Pharmacology in an effort to improve drug-related articles on wikipedia. Articles may be selected every week or every two weeks, depending on the article and the present situation, to be collaborated on by editors. The article may or may not yet exist. The topics should include anything related to Pharmacology; it could either be an article about a specific drug, or an article about a drug process, drug design, or a particular class of drugs. The aim is to have a featured-standard article by the end of the period through widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Any registered user can nominate and vote on articles (see Voting below). This collaboration uses approval voting. You do not have to be a professional in the field of pharmacology or medicine to participate; the opinion of laypeople is valued both for article suggestions and to help ensure that articles are not too technical. New articles will be selected every Wednesday (see the record of previous collaborations). This collaboration is still new; rules may change or be bent as we find our footing.

Voting
Please vote in favor of as many candidates as you like; oppose votes have no effect (approval voting is used). Any registered user may vote for an article, provided that account's first edit occurred before the nomination. You do not have to have any special knowledge of pharmacology or medicine to nominate or vote for an article.

To vote for an article, simply edit the appropriate section by adding, and increment the votes= counter in RxCOTW.

If you believe that a topic does not fall within the scope of this project, please mention your objections in the "Comments" section. Every Wednesday, the article currently with the most votes will be selected to be the new collaboration, although collaborations may be extended from time to time (for instance, during featured article candidacy). In the case of a tie, the article nominated first will be selected. Articles not selected must receive at least two votes per week to remain in consideration. If a nomination fails to achieve sufficient votes, it may be renominated after at least two weeks. You may wish to see the archive of successful nominations.

List of past and present maintainers

 * 1) Dr. Cash, founder, August 2007

Nominations
Nominations may be made at any time. Nominators must be registered users. To make a nomination, follow the following steps:

The next RxCOTM will be chosen on August 1, 2008.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

 * Support:
 * 1) Dr. Cash (talk) 15:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Fvasconcellos (t·c) 15:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) CCG (T-C) 21:21, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) &mdash; Scientizzle 22:29, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) Shubinator (talk) 23:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * B-class, Top-importance pharmacology article. This is a very important class of drugs. One member of its class is Sertraline, which is a current pharmacology FA and recently featured on the main page, so I think there's definitely interest here. Dr. Cash (talk) 15:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * SSRIs are widely used and, unfortunatly, not well understood by many people. This article could potentially become a very useful source of knowledge about the subject. CCG (T-C) 21:21, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm extending the deadline on this topic. If no other nominees obtain more votes than this, SSRI will be the collaboration for September. It's quite an important topic. Dr. Cash (talk) 21:34, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Parafon Forte

 * Support:
 * 1) Cssiitcic (talk) 20:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2)  Literature geek  |  T@1k?  05:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * The article is a mess. At least 4 cleanup tags are on it. We need to improve it. I know we can. The prose is choppy, there are few citations, and the whole thing looks like it was copied-and-pasted off of another website. PLEASE!! We need this page to be improved.Cssiitcic (talk) 20:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I think that it would be a good idea to try and get this article improved. It may be worth just simply merging it as has been suggested and referenced what should be referenced and deleting text where appropriate. It is a mess for sure.-- Literature geek  |  T@1k?  05:18, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Participants
Any participant of WikiProject Pharmacology is welcome to participate. Additionally, we welcome other contributors who may have an interest in the topic being collaborated on. Please add your name to the list on the main WikiProject Pharmacology page.

Tools

 * Record of previous nominations
 * Successful nominations
 * Expired nominations

is the banner for the current collaboration. You may wish to place it on your user or talk page.

is placed on the talk pages of articles currently being considered for RxCOTW.

is placed on the talk pages of articles that were previous RxCOTWs. It should always be ituted.

sets up new nominations. It should always be ituted.