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An introductory video about how to edit Wikipedia and medicine.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and has a distinct style that may take some time getting used to.
It is important that articles use the best sources and content is given due weight. Different from scientific papers, Wikipedia medical and health content is preferably sourced to secondary sources over primary sources. Citing a review article is preferred over an original trial.
To get you started and to explain why this is important here are a number of guides and guidelines:

WP:MEDRS		WP:MEDMOS
Reliable Sources (medicine)		Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)
WP:MEDCOI		WP:MEDHOW
Conflicts of Interest		How to edit

Our guides complement Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and take great care to explain why they are relevant.

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Article Alerts

Today's featured articles

30 Oct 2025 – 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

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27 Oct 2025 – The Take-Charge Patient (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Cunard (t · c); see discussion
27 Oct 2025 – Jessie Wright (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Darth Stabro (t · c); see discussion
21 Oct 2025 – Signe Salén (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Spiderpig662 (t · c); see discussion
16 Oct 2025 – The Patient's Playbook (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Cunard (t · c); see discussion
13 Oct 2025 – Intersex healthcare (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Launchballer (t · c); see discussion
27 Sep 2025 – Kate Nambiar (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sleepytimecat (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

22 Oct 2025 – World Herbal Encyclopedia (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zalaraz (t · c); see discussion (12 participants)
20 Oct 2025 – Kevin Sands (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Toadspike (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
20 Oct 2025 – California University of Science and Medicine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WestwoodHights573 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
14 Oct 2025 – 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion (12 participants; relisted)
14 Oct 2025 – 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion (12 participants; relisted)
14 Oct 2025 – 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion (12 participants; relisted)
20 Oct 2025 – M. D. Ray (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Duffbeerforme (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 27 Oct 2025; see discussion (5 participants)
20 Oct 2025 – Ralph Bates Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by LibStar (t · c) was closed as merge by Left guide (t · c) on 27 Oct 2025; see discussion (4 participants)
17 Oct 2025 – Enfield Royal Clinics (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 24 Oct 2025; see discussion (3 participants)
17 Oct 2025 – Daya General Hospital (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Thilsebatti (t · c) was closed as delete by Salvio giuliano (t · c) on 24 Oct 2025; see discussion (6 participants)

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Proposed deletions

22 Oct 2025 – COVID-19 timeline by country in Africa (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Shawnqual (t · c): All the information has been extracted from the primary article COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The content here is duplicate of the lead and timeline sections of the primary article for whatever reason and thus serves no purpose. It was very likely cre ...
20 Oct 2025 – Canby Family Practice Clinic (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Rorshacma (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

20 Oct 2025 – Category:Physicians from Sichuan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2025 – Category:Physicians from Inner Mongolia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2025 – Category:Physicians from Hunan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2025 – Category:Physicians from Guizhou (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
20 Oct 2025 – Category:Physicians from Chongqing (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion
22 Sep 2025 – Category:Documentary films about the illegal drug trade (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
22 Sep 2025 – Category:Films about the illegal drug trade (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
19 Oct 2025 – Category:Psychiatric hospitals in fiction (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

29 Oct 2025 – Di-clo (talk · edit · hist) →Dichloromethane was RfDed by Mdewman6 (t · c); see discussion
28 Oct 2025 – Medicom (talk · edit · hist) →Chloramphenicol was RfDed by मल्ल (t · c); see discussion
26 Oct 2025 – Donor Conception Network (talk · edit · hist) →Donor-conceived person was RfDed by Schützenpanzer (t · c); see discussion
23 Oct 2025 – Rasmussen s Encephalitis (talk · edit · hist) →Rasmussen syndrome was RfDed by The Blade of the Northern Lights (t · c); see discussion
22 Oct 2025 – Short penis (talk · edit · hist) →Micropenis was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion
21 Oct 2025 – Heat sore (talk · edit · hist) →Herpes was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion
19 Oct 2025 – Lutz-Jeanselme syndrome (talk · edit · hist) →Syphilis was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion
03 Oct 2025 – Men who lie with men (talk · edit · hist) →Men who have sex with men was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion
27 Sep 2025 – 🫦 (talk · edit · hist) →Body-focused repetitive behavior was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion
27 Sep 2025 – Lip biting (talk · edit · hist) →Body-focused repetitive behavior was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion

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Files for discussion

28 Oct 2025 – File:One Health Triad.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on One Health Model) was FfDed by Reconrabbit (t · c); see discussion

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Other tasks

Clean up articles – gigantic sorted list of articles with tags
Write new articles
Ideas for technical projects
Check for retracted papers. See Category:Articles citing retracted publications for articles that may wrongly cite retracted publications.
Remove inappropriate external links. Some medicine-related articles attract inappropriate links, such as internet chat boards and advertisements. You can review the external links in any article, or you can use Special:Linksearch to find articles containing a specific link, such as *.clinicaltrials.gov or *.groups.yahoo.com. Details available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
Help evaluate articles nominated for deletion. Help identify deletion discussions that relate to medicine.
Sort stubs. See the list of specific stub templates. Replacing {{stub}} or {{med-stub}} with a more specific template is helpful.
Assess quality and importance of articles. Use the Rater-tool and assess the article according to our assessment scale. A bot-generated list of new articles that might be medicine-related is here.
'Help with completion of translation into French and Chinese'. Help is needed to review and help the article that is practically ready https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89couter_sans_risque. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GWei13/%E5%AE%89%E5%85%A8%E8%81%86%E5%90%AC
Improve categorization of articles. Several popular Wikipedia categories like Medicine and Category:Diseases and disorders need people to sort articles into more specific subcategories. Tools like HotCat may make this easier.

Requests

Requested articles

Templates

Category:Medicine templates contains all templates used on medicine-related articles.

{{WPMED|class=|importance=}} - Placed on talk pages of medicine-related articles and used to assess articles.
{{reqphoto|medical subjects}} - Used on talk pages to request that photographs be added to the article.
{{med-stub}} - Used on stub articles (here is the complete list)
{{Medref}} - Used to indicate an article in need of adequate references.
- {{Medref|section|{{subst:DATE}}}} - Used to indicate an section in need of adequate references.
{{Medicine}} - The bottom navbox template to be used on articles about broad disciplines of medicine.
{{medical advice}} - placed around requests for medical advice on talk pages (box ends with {{cob}}).
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Navigation}} - transcludes the navigation template shown to the right.
{{Reliable sources for medical articles}} - updated template providing links to recent reviews, for use on Talk pages

Inline with article text

{{medical citation needed}} or {{medcn}} - Used after text without a reliable medical source. Generates: Some text.^{[medical citation needed]}
{{medical citation needed span}} or {{mcns}} - Used after text without a reliable medical source. Generates: Some text.^{[medical citation needed]}
{{unreliable medical source}} or {{ums}} - Used after text with a questionable medical source. Generates: Some text.^{[unreliable medical source?]}
{{primary source-inline}} or {{npsn}} - Used after text that cites a primary source. Generates: Some text.^{[non-primary source needed]}

Infoboxes

WP:Infoboxes have been created for a number of article types including:

Template:Infobox medical condition for articles on diseases
Template:Infobox medical intervention for articles pertaining to procedures
Template:Infobox diagnostic for diagnostic test
Template:Infobox drug for medications
Template:Infobox drug class for classes of medication

For other editors

the welcome video

Welcome messages (all of these should be substituted onto a user's talk page):
- {{subst:WPMED welcome}} ~~~~ – Welcome message for new Wikipedians (with invitation to join us) – newish, with video
- {{subst:Welcome medical student}} ~~~~ – For welcoming new editors who appear to be students associated with a course
- {{subst:Student}}~~~~ – For welcoming new editors who appear to be students associated with a course, with more detailed advice
[[File:New medical editor.ogv|thumb|right|thumbtime=2:59|320px|Welcome to Wikipedia]] A video that can be transcluded onto the pages of new users.
{{subst:RSPlease}} ~~~~ – User Talk page request to use MEDRS sources

For WP:MED contributors

{{User WPMed}} – Userbox for members of this WikiProject.
{{WikiProject Medicine topicon}} – For members of this WikiProject. Adds a topicon to your user page.
{{User MedLat}} – Userbox for those who understand Medical Latin (Babel-compatible; just add |MedLat to your Babel template)

Wikipedia Library

The Wikipedia Medical Library
The Wikipedia Library grants Wikipedians who have 500+ edits, account age 6+ months, and meet some other criteria free access to certain academic journals. As of February 2021, it provides instant access to 26 journals, and you can request individual access to journals such as the BMJ, Cochrane Library, and Science Direct (SD includes access to The Lancet).

Found a source that you can't access? Check out the: Resource Exchange
Or try an Interlibrary loan
Need help finding sources?: Help:Find sources
Need help finding your local library?: Wikipedia:Find your library

The Library

Finding images

Most images from the internet are copyrighted and should not be used in Wikipedia.

The NIH has an search engine for open images HERE. Use with care as many of the images are NC licensed and therefore not compatible with Wikipedia.

Community members interested in creating images

Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Requested images

We also have a few people who are interested in creating images for Wikipedia including:

Requested images

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Non-suitable images

Medlineplus [1]: even though it is a US government source, it uses images that may be copyrighted by others.
Other sources in the ".gov" domain may use images from istock photos, and such images may not be in the public domain.

Finding sources

Source	url	Comments
TRIP Database	http://www.tripdatabase.com/	This resource is useful to find references suitable for Wikipedia as it breaks the literature down into secondary sources versus primary sources. It searches the Cochrane Library and many other databases containing systematic reviews, medical guidelines, and evidence-based synopses among others. TRIP Answers is a website related to the TRIP Database which aims to answer clinical questions directly.
Pubmed	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/	A large collection that includes more than 22 million citations and abstracts and tens of thousands of links to the full-text articles. If desired by the user, search results can be limited to show only review articles, full-text articles freely available to the public, or studies from some 120 "Core Clinical" journals (they are all English-language journals). Results are also sortable by publication date. The PubMed identifiers (PMIDs) can be used with the "cite" button found at the top of the edit window. On the left side of a Pubmed abstract you will find filters for "Article types" and you can select "Reviews" there; you can also filter by "Text availability". Pubmed abstracts also have a field called "Publication Type" at the bottom, that shows how Pubmed has classified the study; check to see if the source is a review or not, before using it.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	http://www.cdc.gov/	Reliable source for public-domain information, especially for infectious diseases. Also has a library of copyright-free images.
NCBI bookshelf	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books	Free access to over 700 health-science textbooks
Google Scholar	http://scholar.google.com/	A Google search portal limited to scholarly work (including not only medicine, but also legal articles and patents). Allows easy access to many University and Institutional online collections (with proper affiliation). A useful feature of Google Scholar is "Cited by...", showing who else has cited a particular paper.
Google Books	http://books.google.com/	Makes available free, limited views of a number of medical textbooks. ISBNs are available, aiding referencing.
DynaMed	http://dynamed.ebscohost.com	Subscription required. Provides evidence-based topic overviews and summaries, with plenty of links to the full text of key published clinical evidence, including international guidelines. It also includes live links to PubMed. Trial access may be obtained here.
Emedicine	http://emedicine.medscape.com/	Also known as Medscape Reference. Free, but registration is required. Not the best source of content, with concerns that advertising affects its reliability.
Cochrane collaboration	http://www.cochrane.org/	Perhaps the foremost evidence-based group. Complete access to their collections is available in many countries. Also produces the Cochrane Library.
NICE	http://www.nice.org.uk/	The guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK.
PLoS Journals	http://www.plos.org/	A collection of open-source scientific journals, including PLoS Medicine
SIGN	http://www.sign.ac.uk/	The guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network in the UK.
World Health Organization	http://www.who.int/mediacentre/	Fact sheets from the WHO.
EB medicine	https://www.ebmedicine.net	Excellent reviews of emergency-medicine topics. Issues more than 3 years old are freely available to the public.
USPSTF	http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org	Thorough evidence-based evaluations of medical topics by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
PTSDpub	https://search.proquest.com/ptsdpubs/index	Managed by the VA's National Center for PTSD on the Proquest platform, this robust search engine provides citations and abstracts to the peer-reviewed PTSD literature. Not limited to combat trauma. Previously known as "PILOTS".

Other useful Search Engines include:

NHS Evidence: Search portal for health and social care produced by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for NHS England. Includes a one-stop search engine covering a wide range of sources, including the Cochrane Library, British National Formulary, and UK and international guidelines. Much of the content of NHS Evidence is free to view, but access to certain sections (e.g. many full-text journals and the databases AMED, BNI, CINAHL, EMBASE, Health Business Elite, MEDLINE and PsycINFO) requires a NHS Athens username & password – see the NHS Athens eligibility criteria here
Prodigy Knowledge http://prodigy.clarity.co.uk (previously known as Clinical Knowledge Summaries - CKS) is aimed at clinicians in primary care. It provides reliable evidence-based information and practical "know how" about the common conditions managed in primary care.
EMBASE: A high-quality medical index that often generates better results than PubMed. It is proprietary and requires a paid subscription.
CINAHL: A proprietary index focusing on nursing and allied health care. It requires a paid subscription.

Historical documents

Documents published before 1923 are, in most cases, not copyrighted. While many of these documents are outdated, they can still be of great utility in supplementing "History" sections of certain medical articles. Also, historical images can still depict symptoms of diseases, normal anatomy, and other features quite accurately.

Possible sources of useful images and text of historical interest include:

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) and, more generally, the digital collections maintained in the National Library of Medicine: Care must be taken in choosing materials here since most, but not all, content is in the public domain.
The Pierre and Marie Curie University has an important digitalized collection of documents [2] useful for writing articles about the history of science (especially French). Its "Charcot collection" specializes in medicine (particularly neurology) and has many valuable images available.
The Library of Congress U.S. Historical, Cultural Collections and the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: Both of these sources contain medical and non-medical images and other potentially useful media files. Again, great care must be taken in choosing items to use since not all content is in the public domain.
"Images of Surgery" [3] is a resource containing a number of historical images and depictions of surgical procedures across time.