Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Hematology-oncology task force/Archive 1

Creation
This is a new task force and many tasks still need to be completed. Help would be appreciated. See WP:MEDTF — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyrol5 (talk • contribs) 16:46, 21 October 2009


 * The "Pages" tasks have all been completed. Does anyone know the status of the other three (categories, templates, announcements)?  WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I completed the "Templates" tasks and will create some of the categories. I named the parameter for WPMED "hemonc", but maybe it should be something different.  The other task forces' parameters use a single whole word, but if just "hematology" or "oncology" is used, it would be excluding a good portion of this task force's scope.  Does anyone have any opinions?  "hemonc"? "hem-onc"? "hematology-oncology"?  Also, after a very brief search, File:Red White Blood cells.jpg was the first image I came across that could work as an icon for the task force.  Let me know if you find a better image.  --Scott Alter 05:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I found an illustration in the public domain at Wikimedia Commons that I think looks better. It is an illustration of red blood cells. Tyrol5   [Talk]  19:48, 25 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Scott. "Hemonc" is fine with me.  I suppose we ought to find and tag the dozen or so most important articles.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:05, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Question
I thought that there already was a wikiproject labeled "Wikiproject:Oncology". I am not to sure if there is a wikiproject for hematology but are you sure we need this task force? - BennyK95  -  Talk  19:06, October 21 2009 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge, there is no such project. I searched it and it came up with no independent project related results. I think that this task force is necessary, as hematology/oncology is a huge area of medicine that needs coverage on this wikiproject. This task force has been discussed before creation and the general consensus was to go ahead and create it. Tyrol5   [Talk]  19:32, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Shortcuts
WP:HEMONC? WP:ONCOLOGY? Any others that strike people's fancy? WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think WP:HEMONC will be just fine, as it incorporates both specialties involved. WP:ONCOLOGY and WP:HEMATOLOGY could also be created, so if people search for a project related to these specialties, they will be redirected here. I will create the shortcuts now. Tyrol5   [Talk]  20:42, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Hematology-oncology articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Cancer pain nominated for GA
Hi. Letting you know I've nominated Cancer pain for WP:GA. Your thoughts would be very much appreciated at Talk:Cancer_pain. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:38, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Peer review
A request has recently been made for peer review of List of ineffective cancer treatments, an article which falls within the scope of this project. All and any feedback most welcome. Alexbrn talk 09:28, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Cancer in children: The big picture
Can we talk about some missing, or at least hard-to-find, articles? I ran across Juvenile Leukemia today, which could use some loving attention, and it made me wonder whether a pediatric oncology series might be useful. I'm thinking that the list would run something like this:


 * Cancer in children -- glioma, medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumors, rhabdomyosarcoma and osteosarcoma seem to be common solid tumors in the US
 * Childhood leukemias -- merge Juvenile Leukemia into this redirect
 * Brain tumors in children -- as a major category of cancer, particularly in neonates

Also, I think that it might be interesting to consider whether adolescent cancer is sufficiently different from prepubescent cancer to warrant a separate article.

But perhaps some of these articles already exist, or other people have ideas about expanding the list? I'm open to information, suggestions, and sources. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:52, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:JCW help
There's a new WP:JCW report.

Out of the 500 most highly cited missing journals, here's a few that fall into your scope, or near your scope. • J. Natl. Cancer Inst.

• Leuk. Lymphoma

• Oncol. Rep.

• Journal of the National Cancer Institute

• Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev.

• Mol. Cancer Res.

• Leuk. Res.

• Cancer Biol. Ther.

• Gynecol. Oncol.

• J. Cancer Res. Clin. Oncol.

• Breast Cancer Res.

• J. Neurooncol.

• Mol. Cancer

• Haematologica

• Exp. Hematol.

• Blood Cells Mol. Dis.

• Int. J. Hematol.

• Eur. J. Haematol.

• Mol. Carcinog.

See the writing guide if you need help with those. Some of these might be better as redirects (Guide to redirects). Feel free to remove those which you think are too far from oncology/hematology from the list. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 15:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Colored the image


I colored the image that we're using in our banner. It's not a very skilled job and I couldn't get a really good carmine color for the red blood cell (please feel free to re-do if you'd like), but the black-and-white image looked so plain next to some of the others, and I thought that this would be a small improvement. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:08, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Categories
So I've been playing with WP:HotCat for the first time, and have cleaned out some of the redundant stuff at Category:Oncology. Some of the stuff is pretty easy: charities get dumped in Category:Cancer organizations. But I don't know what to do with others, like these:


 * Experimental, mainstream possibly-future cancer treatments: In the main Category:Cancer treatments, or a new one for stuff being tested?
 * Biopsy and other not-strictly-screening diagnostic procedures: A new cat?  Expand the scope of Category:Cancer screening?
 * Various complications, like mets: A new cat?  Under "Types of cancer"?
 * Drug companies: A new cat?  Just in Category:Biotechnology companies by country?
 * General types of tumors and pathology "vocabulary words" like spiculated mass?

Ultimately, I hope that the main oncology category will contain only relatively important, big-picture articles, to make it easier for readers to find the important ones. What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:18, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello from Cancer Research UK
Hi. I represent a team of editors at Cancer Research UK. As some of you may have seen, we're very keen to get involved with editing Wikipedia, and have been chipping away at several of the key pages on cancer and related topics for a few months now. Mike Peel suggested we try to get involved with the Wikiproject Medicine/Hematology-oncology taskforce to step things up a gear - please do get in touch if you're active in this taskforce and have any ideas or thoughts about how we can all work together to make Wikipedia's cancer information the best it can be! We have our own little project page here, please feel free to drop me or any of the other Cancer Research UK editors a message. HenryScow (talk) 11:40, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The most important guideline here to read is probably this one here that outlines referencing. Typically we either use review articles or major textbooks as refs.-- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:08, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Fresh frozen plasma
Fresh frozen plasma is in need of subject-matter experts, particularly the recently-reverted good-faith addition that I reverted due to readability reasons. See Talk:Fresh frozen plasma. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  23:05, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Archived some threads
I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 13:17, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Oncology articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 16:18, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * See also Category:Medicine/Hematology-oncology task force articles needing expert attention. Iceblock (talk) 17:05, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Differential DVH
Members of this project are invited to comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:03, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

AIDS-related lymphoma
There's a note at Talk:AIDS-related lymphoma that says half the article feels 'off'. Does anyone want to have a look? WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:11, 16 December 2015 (UTC)