Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Newsletter/June 2020

Issue 1—June 2020

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter

Welcome to the test issue of the newsletter!

News from around the site

• A recent arbitration case has authorized discretionary sanctions for discussions/edits regarding drug pricing.
• A Spring backlog drive at Wikipedia:Good article nominations has reduced the number of outstanding nominations by more than half and drastically reduced the wait time for review! It's a great time to nominate a page, or to chip in by reviewing from the biology & medicine queue.

Discussions of interest

• A question regarding incorporating machine-readable disease codes into more medical articles was raised at VPP
• A request for help updating Parkinson's disease, which was promoted to FA in 2011, is at Talk:Parkinson's disease.
• The formal featured article review for Huntington's disease has been re-started after a two-month pause. They're seeking editors willing to help update the article, here.

For a list of ongoing discussions in WP:MED-tagged articles, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Discussions
Also, a reminder to see Article Alerts for a list of medicine-related AfDs, CfDs, merge discussions, and more!

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Maybe usually on some current event that impacts editing here? An obvious first candidate is covid, the proliferation of covid-related pages, and an influx of new editors interested in the topic. On months where no one is interested in writing a feature, the newsletter would get sent without one. No big deal.

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