Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathology

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A place for people interested in creating Wikipedia entries on the science, history, philosophy and politics of mental illness (or indeed any relevant and interesting information on this topic).

Of course this is quite a broad scope, so giving a standard template for all of these would probably be a little counter productive. However, perhaps there are some guidlines which may help Wikipedians who want to get involved.

I think it's worth including this handy intro from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Conditions page:

These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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[edit] Title

WikiProject Psychopathology

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide information on the science, history, philosophy and politics of mental illness (or indeed any relevant and interesting information on this topic).

This may include:

  • entries on specific diagnoses, syndromes, signs or symptoms of mental illness (for example schizophrenia, psychosis, delusion).
  • entries on specific concepts or movements (for example mental illness, psychiatry or anti-psychiatry)
  • biographies of influential people in the field of psychopathology, including those who have been mentally ill and those who have been involved in treating or studying mental illness (for example James Tilly Matthews, Jules Cotard).
  • historical information on significant places or institutions (for example Bedlam)
  • information on current treatments for mental illness (for example, see Antipsychotic)
  • adding relevant information to related entries, but which are probably managed better by other Wikiprojects (for example McNaghten rules).

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine and WikiProject Psychology.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] The Psychology Wiki

The Psychology Wiki is a Wikia project, meaning that it is run by Wikia Inc, associated to Wikimedia foundation who run Wikipedia. You can think of the project as a daughter of the wikipedia site.

We are a large wiki in terms of content but small in terms of contributors. We have various plans to promote ourselves through wikipedia, and through psychology on and off the internet, but some more promotion amongst people already familiar with Wiki editing would be very advantageous.

The Psychology Wiki differs from Wikipedia psychology articles in that:

  • 1) It is intended to contain all of the discipline of psychology, like a giant meta-textbook, rather than an Encyclopedia.
  • 2) It will therefore go into much greater technical detail than one would have in an encyclopedia. It will have full academic referencing.
  • 3) It will have user experiences relating to psychology issues on seperate user pages, protected by admins, allowing POV to be expressed on these pages only. The rest of the wiki is NPOV, but expression of personal experience is nessesary and desireable on our wiki.
  • 4) It will have course content pages from academic and clinical courses with links to internal wiki articles.
  • 5) It will be a place for researchers to discuss latest papers etc...
The Psychology Wiki.
The Psychology Wiki.

PS All wiki editors should be aware of the psychological phenomena of Social Loafing. It effects new Wikis with few contributors especially.

Here are some useful pages on our site

We just need more contributors to make it work! Mostly Zen 23:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

see parent projects

[edit] Participation and participants

[edit] What does participation involve?

As little or as much as you'd like. One page you might like to add to your watchlist is Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychopathology/Review. If you add or make any changes to entries relating to psychopathology it might be worth listing them on this page. Similarly, if you find any new entries or simply want something looked over, adding them to the Review page would also be useful. This means everyone in the WikiProject gets alerted to relevant articles from one place on Wikipedia.

[edit] Structure

Wikipedia:Guide to layout discusses the standard Wikipedia layout style. The first line of the article should be a single sentence explanation of the entry if possible.

In general, entries should strive for clear and flowing prose. Scientific or technical terms are fine, but please try to briefly outline their meaning in plain english, in brackets if necessary. For example "neurobiological explanations (those describing chemical interactions in the nervous system) are common".

Entries should strive for accuracy and be based on referenced academic work where possible. If you can write a flowing text article with inline references then use the format given in Wikipedia:Cite sources:

"Brown (1996) and Frank (2003a) both provide support for the view that ..."

Any references or footnotes that do not easily flow with inline text should be referenced as footnotes using Wikipedia:Footnotes. Compare:

"Smith (2004) and Jones (1997) support early intervention while Harris (1999) found no evidence for a benefit."

With

"There is conflicting research on the benefits of early intervention.1
Notes
_______________________________________________________________
1 Smith (2004) and Jones (1997) support early intervention while Harris (1999) found no evidence for a benefit and criticized their studies on methodological grounds."

Footnotes and references to key papers or books should be included at the bottom of the page for the interested reader to follow up in the following order: Quotations, Related topics (or See also), Notes, References and External links sections all as top level headings. (See Wikipedia:Guide to layout and Wikipedia:Cite sources). These should be chosen to give a balanced overview of the subject if possible.

If you are not comfortable finding academic sources or do not have ready access to them, but feel you have heard of, or wish to include, some useful information you are unsure of, ask in the talk page and someone with access to academic sources will try to find specific sources for your point.

It is likely that entries will be created by a mixture of people with academic experience in the area, and those with a keen personal interest or personal experience. Please don't get offended if your changes get modified for accuracy, but feel free to ask for justification if you wish (again in the talk page) and discuss the changes.

Many of the issues surrounding mental illness are contentious, please try to follow the Wikipedia guidelines for Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.

Entries describing specific diagnoses should give the accepted diagnostic criteria (such as from the DSM or International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems|ICD) if it is available and then go on to discuss the validity of such a diagnoses if necessary.

Entries describing specific diagnoses should consider the guidelines in Wikipedia:WikiProject Medical Conditions.

Have fun and if in doubt, ask!

[edit] Drugs and medications

When mentioning medications, generic names should be used and tradenames included this helps with clarity. Generic names are typically not capitalised, whereas tradenames are e.g. fluoxetine (Prozac)

Entries for psychiatric drugs should be created under their generic name and possible trade names directed to that page by a #REDIRECT.

[edit] Hierarchy Definition

None as yet. See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.

[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forum

  • /General
  • /Strategy
  • /Request an article
    • last edit to this page was in March 2006 (as of 2007-12-02)
  • /Review Add new articles here for review and discussion.
    • last entry to this page was in December 2006 (as of 2007-12-02)