2008/11/25 Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We have a megaphone at our disposal, the question is how to use it > effectively. Warnings are pointless - we put all sorts of warnings on the > medications we dispense, but I attend probably two to three lectures a year > on how ineffective these warnings are. People don't read them - we're lucky > if they read and understand the directions. Some states require spoken > counseling on instructions and side effects because so few people read > warnings and other information when they receive medication. Warnings on > Wikipedia drug articles are unlikely to be all that effective, and if you > start putting specific disclaimers on these you will need to start doing it > on hundreds of other categories of articles as well.
I think the very best thing we can do in terms of serving the public is to have as clear, accurate and referenced information as we can, in a well-written article, i.e. what we do anyway. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
