Sure, and we should make up a legal disclaimer too.
Fred
From: Jesse Alter jesse@snacksoft.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 04:35:38 -0500 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Medical Disclaimer
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Jesse Alter wrote:
*DISCLAIMER*
Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use only. The information is in most cases not reviewed by professionals. You are advised to contact your doctor for health-related decisions.
Should we be adding disclaimers like that to most of the articles? Do we even need a disclaimer? If so, I think it should be somewhere else, like on the front page, and not on each article we have. I can only imagine seeing the big red disclaimer on [[Food Poisoning]], [[Peyronie_disease]], [[Gingivitis]], [[Cancer]], and [[Chiropractic medicine]] :-P
I thought of removing the disclaimer from each of the Hepatitis articles but decided I should get a consensus here, first.
The disclaimer is in the right place. It would be useless on the front page. A person who has reached the hepatitis article from a Google search, may not even know that the front page exists. There are always individuals in the general public whoce capacity for stupidity is absolutely brilliant. :-D
Eclecticology
Should I add the disclaimer to other articles related to medicine?
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