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I am in the process of creating a list of drugs and their various names. The list will be alphabetical and will use the following format (subject to change if better suggestions are put forward).

All items in the list will follow the general format:

Name of drug (who calls it that) [country]. Redirects to name of drug.

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Name of drug

Will be capitalized if it is a trade name (brand name) or uncapitalized if it is a generic name.
Two trade names that are nearly identical (eg Adalat PA and Adalat XL) need not have seperate entries unless there is a particular reason for doing so.
Names will be listed alphabetically and broken into an appropriate number of pages (with 200-500??? items per page)

who calls it that

For generic names, this is the agency which has designated that name. [eg (INN), (BAN), or (USAN)]
for brand names, this is the company which produces that brand.
If there is more than one agency, then use a comma separated list in the brackets [eg (INN, BAN)]

country

Only mention the country if that trade name is only available in one or two countries.
Use the two letter country code with a wikilink to the country (eg [ CA ])
Use comma separated list for multiple countries (eg [ CA, US ]
Problem is that I can't find an easy and nice way to put square brackets around a wikilink (without those ugly spaces). To me, square brackets are preferable, but maybe it would be best to go with curly braces. (eg {CA}).

Redirects to

If the wikilink of that drug name redirects to another drug name (eg trade name to generic) then mention it on the list.
If a trade name should redirect to a generic name of a drug page that hasn't been created yet, include the redirect mention in the list but don't create a page that redirects to a non-existant page.

Example entries

acetaminophen (USAN). Redirects to paracetamol.
Calpol (Parke-Davis) [ UK ]. Redirects to paracetamol.
Panadol (SmithKline Beecham). Redirects to paracetamol.
paracetamol (INN, BAN).
Tylenol (McNeil). Redirects to paracetamol.

(The above info might not be accurate, I just whipped it up as an example.)

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