[WikiEN-l] Health advice from the web

[geni]

2009/7/31 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
> Ben Kovitz wrote:
>> "The site's other major flaw is its incompleteness. Wikipedia was able
>> to answer only 40 per cent of the drug questions Clauson asked of it.
>> By contrast, the traditionally edited Medscape Drug Reference answered
>> 82 per cent of questions. 'If there is missing safety information
>> about a drug, that can be really detrimental,' Clauson points out."
>>
>>
> The good news is that the template {{missing}} exists. The bad news is
> that it appears hardly to be used (backlinks for [[Template:Missing]]).
> Could we do more to make clear to the public that there is such a
> template to add? They have caught on quite well to {{fact}}.
>
> Charles

The bad news is a considerable amount of the stuff they considered to
be missing (dosage information and the like) we probably wouldn't
consider encyclopedic.



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geni