Manufacturing section?...that's {{howto}} or [wikiversity], isn't it? If innocuous things like How to Clean a Fish Tank aren't here...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Oskar Sigvardsson" oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:46 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I believe this one has been debated before and was considered to be covered in the nest of disclaimers linked from the general disclaimer.
- d.
There's really two arguments here, a legal argument and a moral one. Legally, the talmudic list of general disclaimers (which no sane person reads) probably covers us, but is that enough? Should we stop there?
The moral argument says that we should make sure that people don't rely on only our information when it comes to serious decisions with serious consequences. I don't think it would be a bad thing at all if at the dosage section of an article on drugs we say "Consult your physician before taking medication" or on the article on nitroglycerin, have a small little disclaimer in the "Manufacturing" section saying "It is extremely dangerous to try this yourself if you are not a trained chemist".
--Oskar
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