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You may comment on my TODO list if you please.

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[edit] Hopelessly POV

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject_Drugs

I need to start a project that automates factual changes/insertions (like rambot). A lot of incorrect information exists in or basic factual information is missing from drug related articles. This is stuff that can be easily looked up online and are basic scientific facts for which there is no argument over. The information can be found from several online drug databases including rxlist.com, medlineplus.gov, the official websites of drug manufacturers (they have free, detailed information sheets) and other various websites.

I plan on writing a bot which can automatically 'rip' factual information (which is non-copyrightable due to its factual nature) and create an off-site database. I will offer this database for free for people to download, so both they and I can work on bots that can integrate the information in articles.

This would require considerable collaboration with the drugs wikiproject people to provide a standard format for all drugs articles beyond the simplistic efforts taken so far so that I can ensure the bot will behave properly and insert information only in a correct manner.

For clarity, this is information regarding side effects, [bio]chemistry, routes of administration, drug names (brand name and generic--my bot will autmoatically look up International Nonproprietary Name, USAN, BAN and other names) as well as other clearly factual things.

A question needs to be raised regarding drug pages, how should they be organized? The full information sheets on drugs are very large and rather complicated from a lay person's perspective, perhaps it would make sense to integrate full infomration (including the results of studies on it) on a separate "full information" page while keeping the main page a summary?

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases

Some of the SCOTUS articles (Lawrence v. Texas, Bowers v. Hardwick) have caught my interest and I may decide to do some bot automation with them also, but I'm not sure what yet. There are various large legal database websites available which I can legally rip information from in the same manner as with the drug project above.

See also: Category:U.S. Supreme Court cases