Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy

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.

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

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

80 GA-class articles: 51.3% complete

250 B-class articles: 74.8% complete

Reduce number of stubs from 2,500 to less than 2,000: 89.6% complete

• 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

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)

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}}

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages

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Good article nominees

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

Articles to be merged

• 06 Nov 2025 – Holonephros (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Archinephros by Lmalena (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 28 Apr 2025 – Organ (biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Just-a-can-of-beans (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Jan 2025 – Vagina (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by M.Bitton (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jun 2022 – Transverse cervical artery (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LR0725 (t · c); see discussion

You can add this banner to your page by inserting {{User WPAnatomy}} on your user page:

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

• {{subst:WPANATOMY welcome}} ~~~~

• {{Anatomical diagram requested}} puts an article in Category:Wikipedia requested anatomical diagrams

• {{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)

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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