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(a)yahoo.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:06:37 -0800
To: wikien-l(a)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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