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Welcome to WikiProject Anatomy!

This WikiProject aims to better organize information in articles related to Anatomy, and improve their overall quality. Please feel free to help, add yourself to the participants; or leave a message on the talk page!

This particular project supports all articles on human anatomy.

• Head over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Open Tasks for a list of projects that are easy to get into and need help!
• Don't forget to engage in discussion as well as give feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anatomy!

• WikiProject Animal anatomy
• WikiProject Biology
• WikiProject Dentistry
• WikiProject Evolutionary biology
• WikiProject Medicine
• WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology
• WikiProject Neuroscience
• WikiProject Physiology

Data for this project is managed at:

• Wikidata:WikiProject Medicine

• Add ((WikiProject Anatomy|class=Start|importance=mid)) to the talk pages of all articles within the scope of this project. For more information about class and importance, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
• If an article needs a picture, add ((Photo requested|anatomy)) to the talk page. The article will be automatically added to the requested images of anatomy category.
• The rater tool may be enabled to more easily set and view the ratings of articles. For information about enabling this tool, see User:Kephir/gadgets/rater. This is best used in conjunction with the 'display assessment' tool enabled on preferences/gadgets.

Discipline

The anatomical discipline (or field) of an article can also be set using the field parameter: ((WikiProject Anatomy|class=Start|importance=mid|field=x))

• This allows us to provide easy-to-access lists to contributors and professional and easily facilitate inter-project and intra-wiki collaboration.
• The following values for 'field' are valid: animal, embryo, gross, meta, micro, NA, neuro, organs, systems
• meta refers to subjects about the field of anatomy itself, including biographies, journal articles, organisations, definitions and articles relating to the history of anatomy.
• Please mark all redirects as "NA" to reduce clutter in categories

Article assessment statistics

Articles assessed for quality: 100% complete

Anatomy articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1		2	1			4
FL		1					1
FM					32		32
GA	7	19	13	3			42
B	8	45	70	38			161
C	24	201	530	172		1	928
Start	2	73	971	831	1	6	1,884
Stub		2	610	1,451		7	2,070
List	5	17	27	7	10	18	84
Category			1		393		394
Disambig					540		540
File					5		5
Portal					4		4
Project					15		15
Redirect		3	63	122	14,725		14,913
Template					188		188
NA						1	1
Other					3		3
Assessed	47	361	2,287	2,625	15,916	33	21,269
Unassessed					1	4	5
Total	47	361	2,287	2,625	15,917	37	21,274
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 26,119			Ω = 5.13

Index · Statistics · Log

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

• 1.6% List-Class
• 40% Stub-Class
• 36.4% Start-Class
• 17.9% C-Class
• 3.1% B-Class
• 0.8% GA-Class
• 0.1% FA-Class
• 0.1% remaining

Wikipedia Anatomy has the potential to be a world-class resource for anatomical information. To this end, we're working towards these three goals:

• To provide a link to images stored on WikiCommons, use ((Commons category|name of wikicommons category)). Place this in the 'see also' section.
• To provide a link to Wiktionary, use ((wiktionary|article name)). Place this in the 'see also' section.
• To provide a link to a summary of anatomical terminology, use ((Anatomy-terms)). Place this in the 'see also' section.

• Article Alerts
• Our entry on the WikiProject Directory: here

Newsletter

WikiProject Anatomy has a newsletter, sent out to all editors on the mailing list (click to add). The current edition is here.

Editions:

• Getting the project started again (December 2013)
• Places for editing (March 2014)
• Simplifying anatomical terminology, released in conjunction with this essay: WP:ANATSIMPLIFY (November 2014)
• Technical changes underlying our project (July 2015)
• How far we've come (November 2016)
• WikiProject Anatomy and Anatomy on Wikipedia
• Anatomy and featured articles (September 2020) (current)

Recent changes

Recent changes in WP:Anatomy

• All project articles (including talks)
• All project non-articles (including talks)
• 500 Most popular pages

List overview · Lists updated: 2018-01-31 · This box:

• v
• t

A list of recent changes in all pages under the project's scope can be found here: To put this box on your user page, use this template: ((Recent changes in Anatomy))

Popular pages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages

Cleanup listing

• [1]

Article alerts

Redirects for discussion

• 21 Mar 2024 – Cum gutter (talk · edit · hist) →Apollo's belt was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 07 Feb 2024 – Drug-eluting stent (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maxim Masiutin (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 19 Mar 2024 – Nasolacrimal duct (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to nasolacrimal canal by PeterGregson11 (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Mar 2024 – Nasolacrimal canal (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to nasolacrimal duct by PeterGregson11 (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Dec 2023 – Multiaxial joint (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Synovial joint by Darcyisverycute (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 04 Aug 2023 – Acetabular labrum (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Jay Hodec (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Jul 2023 – Posterior clinoid processes (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Jay Hodec (t · c); see discussion
• 05 May 2023 – T cell (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2022 – Platelet (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Darkskysunflowers (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jun 2022 – Transverse cervical artery (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LR0725 (t · c); see discussion

User Template

You can add this banner to your page by inserting ((User WPAnatomy)) on your user page:

This user is a member of WikiProject Anatomy.

To welcome editors of anatomy articles, copy and paste this template (with the signature):

• ((subst:WPANATOMY welcome)) ~~~~

Navigation templates

Other templates

• ((Anatomical diagram requested)) puts an article in Category:Wikipedia requested anatomical diagrams

Project templates

• ((Medicine navbox doc))
• ((Anatomy navbox doc)) - basic documentation for use in anatomy navbox templates, do not subst.
• ((WikiProject Anatomy))
• ((Recent changes in Anatomy)) - shows the box with recent changes link (all Anatomy pages)

Barnstar

Two barnstars are available for use to celebrate contributions or contributors: ((The Anatomist Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~|alt))

		The Anatomist Barnstar
		put your message here ~~~~

• For a customised Anatomy barnstar, use ((subst:WPANATOMY-barnstar))

		The Golden Galen barnstar
		You have been awarded the prestigious Golden Galen barnstar for your contributions to Wikipedia's anatomy articles. Thank you for your contributions and well done!

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