On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 19:43, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: >> --- On Sat, 23/10/10, SlimVirgin <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Someone working for the company that makes Lipitor would try to stop >>> mainstream media sources being used in the article, because it's the >>> media that has been pointing out problems with these drugs. And that's >>> exactly what happens on these articles, but it's unfortunately >>> Wikipedians who are doing it. Their motives are good -- to keep out >>> nonsense -- but the effect is to turn those articles into something >>> the manufacturers and their PR people would be very happy with. >> To be sure, information on side effects can be found in the scholarly >> literature. This is usually where the press gets it from.
>> WP:MEDRS specifically allows the use of media sources for such purposes. >> If editors edit-war this information out, it needs to go to a >> noticeboard, or to arbitration. >> >> Andreas > > I added a section on memory loss to that article, and used the source you > cited as well as a Wall Street Journal article. I don't much care for the > Telegraph myself, and didn't use it. In fact it was an anecdotal account > of a single person. > > Now, let's see if anyone shows up to remove this black mark... And > observe how they go about it. I tried to add the BBC report a few months ago to [[Statin]], along with the study the report was based on, but it was removed several times and I gave up in the end. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
