We need to effectively communicate a disclaimer to our readers when appropriate, not hide it in a footnote. Please see what we have done at [[chiropractic medicine]]. That is how to communicate an effective disclaimer.
Fred
From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:06:37 -0800 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Disclaimers (was Medical Disclaimer)
Eclecticology 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.
I disagree. We should have one page on Wikipedia that has all our disclaimers on it and this page should be linked from the non-editable bottom area on each page (in the same way as [[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] is linked from every page). This is standard practice for large web sites.
There are at least several different disclaimers floating around Wikipedia that we should consolidate into one page. We should also add a legal disclaimer to the mix.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma The usual at [[March 14]]
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