Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine
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| Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine |
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| Classification Systems |
| Compliance Audits |
| Infoboxes |
| Standards of Quality |
Although this Project is currently inactive as an organized collaboration, Wikipedians wishing to make suggestions on how to organize the data in articles about alternative medicine are invited to post here. Like all WikiProjects, these project pages are only suggestions designed to stop the madness of editing articles in a never ending spiral of circular editing.
This project primarily uses lists to create groupings of articles and attempts to fully comply with Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes. The scope of our Wikiproject is defined entirely by these Core Project Lists and Articles. While the implementation of our project predated categories, we have recently placed greater emphasis on categories. But, as this guideline states: "Lists have a substantial advantage over categories and series boxes in that they can be annotated. A list can include items that do not yet have an article, and can also show series or groups where the items would be completely separate on the category page. A well-annotated list may duplicate a category, but not be redundant with it."[1]
- Article series boxes -- There is no natural ordering to the topic of CAM that would form a complete linear series of articles. Therefore, Wikipedian Guidelines[2] prohibit the use of article series boxes by our Wikiproject. In addition, boxes that stated: "This article is part of the article series on ..." have fallen out of favor,[3] and are accordingly not used by this project.
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[edit] Title
WikiProject on Alternative Medicine
[edit] Scope and Goals
This WikiProject aims primarily to facilitate the development of professional looking articles on all aspects of complementary, alternative and integrative medicine. The scope of the Wikiproject will be referred to throughout our project pages simply as CAM.
[edit] Scope
- List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine - A Glossary of quick and to the point definitions of important terms and concepts unique to CAM. All stub articles should be added, here.
- List of branches of alternative medicine - These articles are either about fully developed systems of alternative medicine or they are about generic alternative methods of treatment or therapy.
- The various branches are organized up to two layers deep into related sub-groupings so that the public can easily locate similarly related branches of alternative medicine.
- Diets and exercise in general would be considered a branch, but all the many different kinds of diets, such as vegetarianism, and exercise should be covered.
- Famous people in alternative medicine
- History of alternative medicine
[edit] Goals
- To develop and promote the scope, goals, and tasks to be covered by this WikiProject.
- To enhance the image, status and acceptance of the topic of CAM in the Wikipedian community.
- To promote better quality CAM articles.
- To help stabilize these controversial CAM articles so that the number of edit wars will be reduced.
- Develop a navigational aid to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referncing between articles dealing with CAM.
- To promote better public satisfaction with the coverage of CAM in Wikipedia through easier access by using lists.
- To encourage the development of more CAM articles.
- To develop and promote classification systems that are suitable for comparing all the CAM related articles participating in this WikiProject to each other.
- To collect statistics about the participating articles.
- To develop and promote standards of quality guidelines to be followed in all CAM related articles participating in this WikiProject.
- To formally review and rate the compliance of the major branches of alternative medicine articles and other specific CAM articles that have a history of controversy to our standards of quality guidelines.
- Compliance audits are designed to stop edit wars and are needed only in areas of controversy.
- To formally review and rate the compliance of the major branches of alternative medicine articles and other specific CAM articles that have a history of controversy to our standards of quality guidelines.
- To develop and promote the use of our infoboxes and custom messages.
- To provide a facility that supports the special interest community that will be carrying out the goals and tasks of this project.
- There is always strength in numbers. Divided we fall, but united we will triumph!
- To function as the centralized sounding board watchlist for all CAM related issues.
- To function as a support group for the participants of this WikiProject.
- A friendly place for people interested in creating Wikipedia articles on CAM to congregate and discuss their concerns amongst like minded people.
- To provide a place for discussions that will allow our special interest community to develop more and better CAM articles.
[edit] Related Wikiprojects
Some aspects of this WikiProject have been modeled after:
- WikiProject on Buddhism
- Just like alternative medicine, Buddhism is a religion and philosophy that is alien to Western culture.
- We have adapted Buddhism's navigation aid to fit the needs of this Wikiproject.
[edit] Participants
| User name | Talk page | Special interests or contributions | Medical qualification |
| John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health | natural health, natural therapy and Psychosocial or Mind - Body Interventions, as well as the founder and developer of this WikiProject. | ||
| Ashibaka | Talk | alternative medicine |
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| Heidimo | traditional Chinese medicine, medical intuition, auriculotherapy | I have practical expertise in these fields as well as writing/proofreading/editing skills. I teach and write on these topics regularly. | |
| irismeister | Talk | Interested in health, non-visual eye physiology, free speech and free thinking. | |
| Greenman | |||
| DryGrain | |||
| xyberdoc | Homer Lim, MD from St Carlos Medical Center | ||
| ALargeElk | Talk | ||
| SargonZ | Talk | First year osteopathic medical student at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine. | |
| Smithfarm | |||
| Ballista | |||
| AnaBryce | This is one of my primary areas of interest. | I have been learning and working with various alternative healing methods for about 4-5 years. | |
| Your name | Your talk page | Your interest | Your medical qualification (if any) |
[edit] Announcements for CAM
The talk page will function as the official centralized sounding board watchlist for all CAM related issues for this WikiProject and ideally for Wikipedia as a whole. It will, thus, separate changes to the main project page from CAM related announcements. Its respective talk page will function as a support group for the participants of this WikiProject and for private announcements, such as requests for participating in VfDs, Quickpolls, and Comments.
- Our participants routinely participating in VfDs, Quickpolls, and Comments will be one of our methods for achieving Wikipedian community consensus that will be required before a community wide resolve is built to end the edit wars currently taking place in CAM.
[edit] Classification Systems
Our classification systems are hierarchy scales of evaluation that can be use to compare one CAM article to another.
[edit] Standards of Quality Guidelines
Our Standard of Quality Guidelines are simply that: guidelines. They should not be seen as part of "official" wikipedia policy, merely a useful way to approach some controversial issues. If you make an edit based on these guidelines, you should still be prepared to explain it if others disagree, and if necessary, to compromise and reach an agreement.
[edit] Infoboxes
The most visible impact upon Wikipedia by our Wikiproject will be the display of our infoboxes and category.
[edit] Open Tasks
Beyond editing our Core Project Lists and Articles, writing new articles on CAM related topics, editors interested in working on any open tasks for this Wikiproject should read through our announcement project page for information on what work needs to be done.
[edit] Compliance audits of CAM articles
This WikiProject is in the business of coordinating the formal review of the major branches of alternative medicine articles and other specific CAM articles that have a history of controversy in regards to their degree of compliance to our standards of quality guidelines.
- Our public participants periodically reviewing the compliance of CAM articles with a prior history of controversy to our standards of quality guidelines will be one of our most important methods for achieving Wikipedian community consensus that will be required before a community wide resolve is built to end the edit wars currently taking place in CAM.
- See Compliance Audit Checklist of Key Questions
- See Completed Reviews of CAM articles.
[edit] Core Project Lists and Articles
The following lists/articles were either created by the Project or are our category.
- List of terms and concepts used in alternative medicine
- List of branches of alternative medicine
- List of famous people in alternative medicine
- History of alternative medicine
- Category:Alternative medicine
[edit] Representative articles of this Wikiproject
It has been proposed that every WikiProject choose a single article which represents what the Project members hope each article will eventually look like, so that interested onlookers can see where a Project is heading.
- Natural health -- Best represents the branches of CAM series of articles.
- Lifestyle diseases -- Best represents the philosophy of CAM series of articles.
- History of traditional Chinese medicine -- Best represents the history of CAM series of articles.
- Moshe Feldenkrais -- Best represents the famous people of CAM series of articles.
