Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Nursing
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I think the idea of a nursing wikiproject is a good idea. These normally have a mission, list of aims, resources, members etc. see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide and it needs to be proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject/List of proposed projects. Has this project gone through this without me noticing?— Rod talk 19:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
For the number of nurses in the world, there seems to be not too much interest. However, the only way to gauge the interest is to get started. The initial creation of a portal was intended to build interest in nursing as a Wikipedia topic. -THB 20:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I agree & wiling to help where I can. It might be useful to contact all those listed at Category:Wikipedian nurses as a starting point.— Rod talk 20:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] User Box
Another idea to get started is creating a userbox for users to display on user pages. Any nurse that happens to hit on someone's page and sees the user box might just be interested enough to join. I'm not sure if anyone here already knows how, but I can figure it out if no one else knows or can do it.
[edit] WP:MEDMOS needs YOU!
The Manual of Style (Medicine-related articles) is entering a critical stage: I'm informing people to visit the page, make corrections where possible, and then state there support or disagreements on the talk page, so we can see if there is consensus to turn this proposed guideline into a consensus-supported guideline.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] COTM
Nurse has now been the "Collaboration of the Month" for a few weeks - but nobody has suggested a diffrerent page for next month - should we leave it the same for November or does anyone have any suggestions for a different page as our COTM?— Rod talk 19:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Icon
I think that we need an icon other than the (very nice) portrait of Florence Nightingale, one that better represents modern nursing as a profession. -THB 18:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposal: Inviting editors to join this WikiProject
There doesn't seem to be much activity of late in the Nursing wikiproject. I've recently seen an ineresting idea on a couple of other wikiprojects which enables a standardised message to be posted on the talk page of anyone editing a relevant page. Whenever anyone edits a page related to Munich, Template:WP Munich Invitation is posted to their user talk page informing them of the existence of the WikiProject & this approach has just been adopted by Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol with the template Template:WP Bristol invite.
I've made a version of that template for our purposes, which is in User:Rodw/Sandbox at the moment, but can be moved to Template:WP Nursing invite, that can be posted on the talk page of anyone that edits a Nursing-related page. You would either be able to use {{WP Nursing invite}} for the generic version, or you could use, for example, {{WP Nursing invite|International Nurses Day}} to include the line "Thank you for editing the article International Nurses Day" What does everyone else think?— Rod talk 21:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Great idea, and whatever article you want as COTM for January is fine by me. -THB 22:51, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lack of interest?
Nurses are a varied bunch of people. I have been a nurse since 1986 and I am constantly amazed by the disparate nature of the people in this profession. Still less than 15% of the profession are men and its anyone's guess as to why but it no doubt affects the group as a whole and how it is viewed. I was recently invited to join the project and I am please to do this but it is a daunting task which will require time and patience from all. I have edited and tweaked a few articles so far and I look forward to doing more. I also look forward to more discussion and suggestions on how we will proceed. Canticle 11:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Some missing topics
I wonder if any professionals could help me with my list of missing topics related to medicine? - Skysmith 12:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
