# Disclaimers

By [sol8848](https://paragraph.com/@sol8848) · 2021-10-28

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Wikipedia disclaimers apply to all pages on Wikipedia. However, the consensus in Wikipedia is to put all disclaimers only as links and at the end of each article. Proposals to have a warning box at the beginning have been rejected. Some do not like the way it looks or that it calls attention to possible errors in Wikipedia.

Wikipedia, in common with many websites, has a disclaimer that, at times, has led to commentators citing these to support the view that Wikipedia is unreliable. A selection of similar disclaimers from places which are often regarded as reliable (including sources such as [_Encyclopædia Britannica_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica), [Associated Press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press), and the [_Oxford English Dictionary_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary)) can be read and compared at [Wikipedia:Non-Wikipedia disclaimers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-Wikipedia_disclaimers).

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