I was in a sub for medical students, and saw a comment that someone was using Wikipedia to get drug information.    There are multiple sites and resources that are far more reliable, and it’s fairly well known in academia that Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source of information.

I explained in a comment that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, anytime, for any reason, and it wasn’t safe for this medical student to use it as a resource for figuring out drug action, duration, dosage etc.  The med student told me they didn’t think it was a problem.  

I went on Wikipedia and edited the duration of a medication to be double what it normally was.  I saved it, the posted to the med student the link to the live wiki and asked them if they saw anything wrong with the info.

They got pissed and accused me of potentially causing harm to a patient by changing info on Wikipedia. I don’t think any doctor who deserves to be called one is going to Wikipedia for info on a medication.  What do you all think, am I the asshole?