User:RexxS/MEDRS

MEDRS - bulwark or barrier?

Background

All Wikipedia have policies on sourcing

Most will have guidelines describing reliable sources

• Wikipedia:Reliable sources

Note Wikipedia:Reliable sources #Medical claims

Medicine = Vast number of sources, continuing research.

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• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)

Supplementary info

• Wikipedia:Biomedical information

Advantages of MEDRS

• Drives highest quality
• Limits unencyclopedic topics
• Puts greater onus on creators of novel/fringe topics

Disadvantages of MEDRS

• Another set of "rules" for editors to observe
• Difficulty of differentiating types of source
• Unintuitive to experts