Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine

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Our goal: To create, improve, and maintain articles and content relating to the subject of veterinary medicine.

Project scope: Articles related to veterinary medicine, such as diseases, conditions and treatments of all animals excluding humans, as described on the Assessments page.

Who can join: Everyone is welcome to join this WikiProject, or to discuss veterinary medicine-related articles on the talk page.

Guidelines

Manual of Style: Guidelines for the general construction of articles
Manual of Style for Medicine-related articles: This is also applicable to veterinary medicine-related articles. Useful resources are available here.
Page names: There is no consensus on how to distinguish pages about diseases in one species from pages about the equivalent disease in humans or other species. If you have any suggestions, please discuss them on the talk page.

Open tasks

Stub expansion: A stub is an article deemed too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject. There are two stub lists:
- Veterinary medicine stubs
- Stub-Class Veterinary medicine articles
Assessing importance and quality: Guidelines at Assessments.
General clean up: Pages tagged with problems which need fixing are at: clean-up listing for Veterinary_medicine
Improve an existing article: The Assessments page lists articles by quality and importance; find one to improve. If you want a peer review of an article which you have improved, either list it at Wikipedia:Peer review, or ask the members of this WikiProject on the talk page.
Collaboration and review: The Article alerts page has a bot-generated report of articles which have entered various formal workflows, for example, Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, or Peer review.
Monitor recent changes by going to WP:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Articles and selecting "related changes" from the list of tools on the left side of the page.
De-orphaning: An orphan is an article with no incoming links from other pages. Find an orphan here: Orphaned articles in Veterinary_medicine
Add an image to an article to help to explain the subject. Find images at Media related to Diseases and disorders of animals at Wikimedia Commons. If Wikimedia Commons doesn't have an appropriate image, photograph pets or patients (with their owner's permission). Works created by the US Federal government are in the public domain, and can be added to Wikimedia Commons. Other sources of free images are listed here Commons:Free media resources/Photography.
Add existing pages to this WikiProject: If a page falls within the scope of this project (see Which articles should be assessed by this WikiProject?) then you can add it to the WikiProject by putting the {{WikiProject Veterinary medicine}} project banner on the article's talk page.
Repair dead links: Many dead external links can be fixed by searching the link at the Wayback Machine and replacing the dead link with an archived version.

Create a new article

Your first article? Start here: Wikipedia:Your first article.
Need inspiration? Look here:
- Requested articles: Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/Veterinary
- Missing articles by subject: Veterinary-related topics are listed on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Articles page; red linked articles are "missing".
Add appropriate categories to each article from within Category:Veterinary medicine.
Add the WikiProject banner to the talk page: {{WikiProject Veterinary medicine}}
If the article contains an interesting or unusual fact, you can suggest it for the Did you know? box on the Main Page within seven days of the article's creation.
List the article on the appropriate subpage at WP:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Articles

Articles in this WikiProject

Good articles

Good articles in this WikiProject include:

Did you know (DYK?)

These are the 20 most recent WP:DYK entries for WikiProject Veterinary medicine. Updated approximately weekly by User:JL-Bot.

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Veterinary medicine}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

... that James H. Snook won two Olympic gold medals, invented a surgical instrument, and was executed for murder?
... that submerging a dog in motor oil was a pseudoscientific method used to treat infestations of Demodex injai?
... that in the 1950s Michel Klein opened one of the first veterinary practices in Paris?
... that farmed birds often get marks known as hock burns from the ammonia of other birds' waste?
... that in June 2022, a neurosurgeon found a roundworm in someone's brain?
... that Mycobacterium bacterial species constantly remodel their cell wall layers to survive in stressful environments and avoid their host's immune defenses?
... that Jean Holzworth obtained a PhD in Latin, then retrained as a veterinarian after one of her favorite cats died from a viral infection?
... that the Iowa Cow War started due to bovine tuberculosis testing?
... that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
... that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis?
... that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with diabetes?
... that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska, whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations?
... that Hungarian veterinarian József Marek, the first to identify Marek's disease, also developed a remedy for liver fluke in cattle and a nasogastric tube for treating horse colic?
... that Chrysomya putoria (genus member pictured) and other flies that feed on decomposing flesh are used as important tools in forensic entomology to establish the post-mortem interval?
... that all cerumenolytics are equally good at softening ear wax?
... that relative to its length, one species of mite is the fastest animal on Earth?
... that Melahat Okuyan, a Turkish female microbiologist and AIDS activist, once proposed the establishment of male brothels for homosexuals and cross-dressers in order to improve public health?
... that the flea (pictured) was illustrated by Robert Hooke in 1665 in his pioneering book Micrographia?
... that Susan Stover has received multiple awards for her research into the causes and prevention of performance-related injuries in racehorses?
... that Ann Bowling studied hereditary diseases in animals that were genetically linked to their coat color?

Transcluding 20 of 74 total

Formerly recognized content

Former Featured Articles

Myxobolus cerebralis

Delisted Good Articles

Templates

Templates contain repetitive information that is used on multiple pages, see Category:Veterinary medicine templates.

Article related

Stub templates are placed at the end of veterinary medicine stub-class articles. Stubs are managed by at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting. This is for veterinary medicine stubs: {{Veterinary-med-stub}}

Navigation templates group links to related articles, to simplify navigation between articles. Navigation templates related to veterinary medicine include:

{{Veterinary medicine}}
{{Veterinary medical schools in the USA}}

Add articles to this WikiProject by placing {{WikiProject Veterinary medicine}} on the talk pages of relevant articles.

User related

Add the {{User WikiProject Veterinary Medicine}} userbox to your user page to indicate that you are a member of this WikiProject.

Related projects

Subscriptions

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