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On 15 March 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Martin Pfister, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 23:11, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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	Here's a little something to keep you going. Thanks for your contributions. See you around! Volten001 ☎ 16:28, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. You're invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It started today on Monday June 16 and will run until Sunday July 13. There is over $3300 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning something to save you money in buying books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for subjects which interest you, sign up on the page in the participants section if interested. Even if you can only manage a few articles they would be very much appreciated and help make the content produced as diverse and broad as possible! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:07, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome YuniToumei! I'm glad that you are joining the November 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 13:46, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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If you wish to participate in the 2025 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I saw you add yourself as a participant to the WP:WikiProject Medicine last summer. I wanted to invite you to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026 campaign, where we're aiming to improve all of our 100 top-importance articles. I saw you're interested in short descriptions and infoboxes, and it would be great to check if those are understandable and still up-to-date respectively in our key articles.

I'd also like to invite you to add yourself to the newsletter mailing list if you'd like to stay up-to-date with the group. Finally, did you know we have a Collaboration of the Month? Great place to work together on important articles. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 22:23, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Femke! Thanks for the invite. I appreciate you taking the time to deliver a customised message :) I've signed up now! YuniToumei (talk) 07:50, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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		This award is given in recognition to YuniToumei for collecting more than 60 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's NOV25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 6,000 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:27, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I hope you are enjoying 2026 thus far! I'm reaching out to you since you signed yourself up as a participant of Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026. To get the ball rolling on this project, I'd like to invite you to help fill out the progress table. If you (like me) have a hard time figuring out tables, I'd suggest editing it in the visual editor to make it easier. Just chose any article from the table and check for the following:

1. Sources - are they recent (last 10 years, in accordance with WP:MEDDATE)? Are the sources from a reliable source (I personally use the script User:Headbomb/unreliable to aid in this)? Is there an over relliance on WP:PRIMARY sources?
2. Coverage - Does the article cover the main aspects of the topic? Sometimes it can be helpful to check the article template for the topic to see if there is any major gaps in information (Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Article_templates). WP:MEDSECTIONS also provides an easy overview to the various sections. Are there areas where the article goes into too much detail?
3. Accuracy - This one ties into the last two and mostly checks for WP:DUE weight as well as factual errors. Keep an eye out for primary sources such as case studies or extremely old sources being used to support something that is phrased as a fact.
4. Prose - Can be a bit tricky to judge at first but I'd recommend not getting too hung up on this one. Simply focus on if the articles wording is readable and can be understood. If you find that the way something is written gives you a headache then the prose is probably needing some work.
5. Images and infobox - Is there some images included in the article to aid in understanding? Are there tables with unclear information?
6. Understandability - Is the WP:LEDE understandable to a casual reader or does it require in depth knowledge of the topic? Is the easiest to understand information presented first with details given later on?

After that you just need to copy and paste the current assessment rating. You can also sign yourself up as a volunteer to help improve the page and add any notes that may help others. Feel free to to tackle as many or as little of these articles as you would like, and if you only feel comfortable assessing some of the criteria that's okay too, any bit helps!

If you're looking for some articles that need some love the following articles are assessed as C class: addiction, allergy, anemia, autism, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, COVID-19 vaccine, cancer, cataract, diarrhea, enteritis, health effects of tobacco, kidney disease, mental disorder, and stroke.

Feel free to ask question on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Vital Signs 2026, my talkpage, or in response to this message! IntentionallyDense ^(Contribs) 18:07, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Issue 26—January 2026

WikiProject Medicine Newsletter

Happy New Year from WikiProject Medicine. Last year was tumultuous, with large language models competing for readers’ attention. These models often sound authoritative despite frequent hallucinations. They are however effective at writing in clear, accessible language, something research shows we often fail to achieve in medical articles. One of the goals of the Vital Signs 2026 campaign is to ensure that our top-importance articles are understandable, as this is one of the six B-class criteria they should meet.

Recent recognized content

Polycystic ovary syndrome nom. Femke, reviewed by DoctorWhoFan91 and IntentionallyDense Anne Bayley nom. Dclemens1971, reviewed by Actual7 Abortion in Mauritius nom. Vigilantcosmicpenguin, reviewed by Thebiguglyalien O'Donnell-Luria–Rodan syndrome nom Strange Orange, reviewed by IntentionallyDense

Nominated for review

Modafinil nom. Maxim Masiutin COVID-19 lab leak theory nom. TarnishedPath Endometriosis nom. Femke Cyril Karabus nom jolielover History of penicillin nom. Hawkeye7 Asthma Heart Coeliac disease

WP:MED News

• 2025 saw one Arbitration case related to WikiProject Medicine, related to conduct around transgender healthcare and people. The case saw a number of editors banned or topic-banned.
• Thanks to Earwig, recent article talk discussions are updated again at WP:MED, so you never miss an interesting discussion. Our participant list is working too!
• The Vital Signs campaign has kicked off. We've already removed misinformation from breast cancer, updated the management section of asthma, and assessed what needs to happen at autism. Can you help too?
  • Adopt an article, fix obvious mistakes, and assess if it now meets the B-class criteria in the progress table
  • Help out with any of the smaller tasks, such as ensuring that the new ICD-11 codes are included, or updated the disease frequency and mortality with the Global Burden of Disease study, published last October.

Newsletter ideas, comments, and criticisms welcome.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:23, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, welcome, welcome YuniToumei! I'm glad that you are joining the March 2026 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Cielquiparle (talk) 18:31, 1 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]