[WikiEN-l] Docs look to Wikipedia for condition info: Manhattan Research

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/24  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> The PDR is a reliable source.  If we are relying on the PDR for dosage
> information, then we have no liability for re-reporting what they say.

What if we mis-report it? Errors could be due to misinterpreting the
source, typos, vandalism, etc.

> At any rate, the person would have to sue the editor, not the project, and
> the editor could stand on the basis of simply quoting the PDR.

Could they sue other people that have edited the article without
fixing the mistake? What about someone that reverted vandalism to that
sentence, thus putting back the incorrect information? We can't rely
on the law only holding the person directly responsible liable.

> The PDR is an encyclopedia of drugs and our project as an "teritary source"
> if you will (although I hate that term teritiary), should report everything
> that any other reliable encyclopedia has to say about whatever topic.  It
> seems encyclopedia to me, to report what another encyclopedia states.

There is a big difference between a specialist encyclopaedia like PDR
and a general one like Wikipedia.