Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine

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Welcome to WikiProject Veterinary medicine!

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.

• 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
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• 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.

• 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
  Peer review
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• 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
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• Add existing pages to this WikiProject: If a page falls within the scope of this project (see
  talk page
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• 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.

• 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

Featured articles in this WikiProject:

• Myxobolus cerebralis

Good articles in this WikiProject include:

• Ann T. Bowling
• Colony collapse disorder
• Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus
• Flea
• Leptospirosis
• Myxomatosis
• Streptococcus iniae

The following articles have been featured on the main page under Did you know…

• Grape and raisin toxicity in dogs
  - February 17, 2007
• Prosection - July 19, 2008
• Veterinary school
  - August 2, 2008

Delisted Good Articles

• Canine parvovirus
• Foot-and-mouth disease
• H5N1
• Rabies

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

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.

Add the {{

See Category tree.

• WikiProject Animal anatomy
• WikiProject Agriculture

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.