[WikiEN-l] Health advice from the web

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Fri Jul 31 20:46:36 UTC 2009


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




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