Neil Harris wrote:
At the moment, some articles have disclaimer
notices added (in addition to the general
disclaimer covering the whole encyclopedia,
of course). The new MediaWiki namespace has
recently improved things by allowing the text
of article disclaimer notices to be standardised
and updates automated.
I think these disclaimers are very ugly and make us
look unprofessional (most reference works don't start
their articles with disclaimers!). I also think they
are a bad idea since their absence implies that
somebody should be able to trust the content. It is
also self-referential and has links to a
Wikipedia-namespace page. Having too many of these
links adds an extra burden on third party users of our
content who would want to remove the
Wikipedia-specific references.
It is ''far'' better IMO just to have a link to
[[Wikipedia:Disclaimers]] at the bottom of every page.
In fact I think I'll go ahead and do that this
weekend.
That would get rid of the need to place these ugly
notices everywhere.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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