A reason _is_ why prescription medication needs a professional signature, and I would like to think that expert reviews of our documentation are available. As long as the rest of us take out the more obvious garbage, I think it can happen.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "English Wikipedia" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:23 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications? > 2008/11/25 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/11/25 Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> News just in: People that self-medicate based on what they've read in >>> an encyclopaedia sometimes get it wrong. >> >> >> That said, I frequently look up medications in Wikipedia, applying of >> course my "this is not reliable but it may be useful" filter. I do >> look for stuff like side-effect lists in the article and official >> patient information sheets in the external links. > > Of course, Wikipedia is a very useful resource, you just need to know > what you should and shouldn't use it for. Getting a general idea of > what the drug is and finding links to more reliable resources is an > excellent use for it, using it to decide whether or not to take a > given drug is not a good use for it - that is a good use of a doctor > or pharmacist. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
