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This fully protected project page, WP:Risk disclaimer, appears to need a category added. I found the category at WP:Risk disclaimer/doc while checking the edits of a vandal. Please modify the end of this page as follows:

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'''DO NOT RELY UPON ANY INFORMATION FOUND IN WIKIPEDIA WITHOUT INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION.'''

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'''DO NOT RELY UPON ANY INFORMATION FOUND IN WIKIPEDIA WITHOUT INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION.'''

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• WHEN YOU COPY & PASTE, PLEASE LEAVE THE MIDDLE LINE BLANK FOR READABILITY.

Thank you in advance! – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 05:22, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:39, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Mr. Stradivarius! Joys! – Paine  06:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Why does it mention ADDICTIVE, how could wikipedia information be addictive? Is that a joke? --80.101.68.251 (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This. Why "ADDICTIVE"?--Sigehelmus (talk) 01:21, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Helping keep wikipedia clean is addictive to me; it makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something. Mr. Spink ^{talk★contribs} 19:55, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"CC-BY-SA" should be "CC BY-SA". The dashed form is what we use in the template names, but it's not actually correct. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 20:42, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's the hyphenation given at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ so Done --Redrose64 (talk) 21:29, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Add {{pp|small=yes}}. Anarchyte (work | talk) 09:21, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done – why? None of the other disclaimers have it. Graham87 15:16, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Graham87:Pardon? Every other disclaimer has it. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:05, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies; some were in noinclude tags. I've added it here. Graham87 07:32, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This was mentioned before but why does it say that "INFORMATION FOUND ON WIKIPEDIA MAY BE ADDICTIVE" (paraphrasing)? Information can't be addictive, the previous discussion went nowhere. WikipediaUserCalledChris (talk) 09:18, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Sj: edit EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 03:00, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Information can certainly be addictive: leaving you wanting more, Jonesing for another info-fix. The more compelling and refined the information, the easier it is to find pure veins of knowledge to scratch that just-discovered itch, the greater the risk.

And the Wiki can be addictive as a source of information-confection. To paraphrase Larry Lessig, "I opened Wikipedia, and suddenly an hour had passed, without my noticing." It is his only known weakness.

Of course, the addiction of editing is much greater, leading to elaborate schemes involving automatic timeouts, friends changing one's password, even migrating to other wikis for detox. But the risk of reading seems severe enough to merit a word in a list in a statement in the risk section of the disclaimer. – SJ + 01:03, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]