Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Assessment

This page discusses how to assess the quality of Wikipedia's veterinary medicine articles. Assessments are performed to allow editors to identify pages in need of further work, and are made using the project banner on the article's talk page. The project banner places articles into sub-categories of quality and importance.

Frequently asked questions

 * How is an article assessed? : Anybody can assess an article. The criteria are below in and . If you don't want to make the assessment yourself, list it under, below.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes they are! If you have any suggestions for improvement, please start a conversation on the Discussion page.
 * Where can I find out more about this assessment system? : For more information, visit WikiProject assessment.
 * Where can I ask other questions? : If you have any other questions not listed here, please ask them on the Discussion page.

Which articles should be assessed by this WikiProject?
This project supports articles related to veterinary medicine, such as animal diseases, conditions, and treatments for animals.

WikiProjects that are probably better matches for some topics

 * Animals that happen to have a medical condition: Tag with, for example:, ,.
 * Animal anatomy: Unless the page includes prominent clinical content, tag with.
 * Animal physiology: Unless the page includes prominent clinical content, tag with.
 * Alternative medicine: Generally, tag with.
 * Human medicine and microbes that only cause diseases in humans: Use.
 * Cell signaling and involved molecules: Unless the page includes signficant veterinary information, tag with.
 * Science in general or the scientific method: Use unless the connection to veterinary medicine is clearly obvious to the reader.
 * Pharmaceutical companies: Use.
 * Academic journals: Use.
 * Veterinary schools: Use.

WikiProjects that may be better matches for some topics

 * Veterinarians, paraveterinary workers or scientists: . Additionally add to this WikiProject only if the person is notable for substantial contributions to veterinary medicine, set.
 * Microbes, pathogens. Tag organisms with and, if applicable,  or . If the pathogens cause an illness that does not have its own page, additionally add to this WikiProject.
 * Research facilities and laboratories: Add only if the facility conducts research significant to veterinary medicine, and set.

Pages to include in this WikiProject

 * Animal diseases, syndromes of animals, medical conditions affecting animals.
 * Animal drugs: Tag those used clinically in animals, and additionally add to.
 * Veterinary procedures for diagnostic, therapy, or surgery, etc.
 * History of veterinary medicine: history of veterinary medicine, discovery of diseases, etc.

Instuctions for importance assessments
An article's importance assessment is generated from the  parameter in the WikiProject Veterinary medicine project banner on the article's talk page. Any article not rated for importance defaults to Category:Unknown-importance Veterinary medicine articles. The purpose of the importance scale is to direct the efforts of WikiProject participants towards the most important articles. Although all diseases and medications are of "top" importance to the animals (and the associated humans) that are directly affected by them, the importance rating represents the probability that the average reader of Wikipedia will look up the topic. As a result, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated above topics that veterinary professionals, experts, or students may argue are more "important."

In making an assessment, it may be helpful to compare the article with others that already have the proposed rating. The assessment table at the top of this page is the place to go to find such articles.

Assessment requests
Anyone may assess an article. If you would like someone else to assess an article, please list it below.


 * Canine parvovirus
 * Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
 * Feline vaccination
 * Vaccination of dogs
 * Myxomatosis
 * List of infectious sheep and goat diseases

Assessment log
The historical assessment log is here: Assessment log