User:Tryptofish/Drug prices RfC draft

Draft only!

I don't intend any of this to be well enough written to actually go in the live RfC, but rather to illustrate how the RfC could be constructed. The number of propositions, and what the propositions should actually be, will likely be different. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:49, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

In this RfC, you are asked to support or oppose various possibilities about how drug prices and pricing might be presented on medication pages. Please do not change any propositions once the RfC has begun. Please do not comment within the propositions section; instead, comments should go in the RfC section, below. The RfC will run for a full 30 days, and will be closed by a panel of three uninvolved administrators.

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Propositions

Proposition 1

Content about drug pricing should be included in articles only when multiple independent reliable secondary sources have written about issues that are specifically about the pricing of those drugs. The content should be in paragraph text form, typically in a History or Economics section of the page.

Sample article text:

Specific example of text, with sources cited.

Reasons why this is a good idea:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Reasons why alternative approaches are problematic:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Proposition 2

Drug prices should routinely be included in drug articles. Appropriate sources include: example, example.

Sample article text:

Specific example of text, with source cited.

Reasons why this is a good idea:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Reasons why alternative approaches are problematic:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Proposition 3

Drug prices should be routinely included in infoboxes on drug pages.

Sample article text:

Specific example of infobox, with source cited.

Reasons why this is a good idea:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Reasons why alternative approaches are problematic:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Proposition 4

As an alternative to including drug prices on pages, an external link should routinely be included on drug pages, linking to website name.

Sample article text:

Specific example of external link.

Reasons why this is a good idea:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Reasons why alternative approaches are problematic:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Proposition 5

Content about drug pricing should preferably be cited to independent reliable secondary sources, but a simple listing of a price or price range may be cited to a primary source.

Sample article text:

• Specific example of text, with secondary source cited.
• Specific example of a price listing, with primary source cited.

Reasons why this is a good idea:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Reasons why alternative approaches are problematic:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Proposition 6

Content about drug pricing, sourced to independent reliable sources, can often be more encyclopedic when presented comparatively on pages about drug classes (groups of multiple related drugs), as opposed to being presented singly on pages about individual drugs.

Sample article text:

Specific example of text, with sources cited.

Reasons why this is a good idea:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

Reasons why alternative approaches are problematic:

1. reason
2. reason
3. etc.

RfC comments

• Support 1 and 6, oppose all others. I oppose making Wikipedia a drug price list. --Editor 1.
• Strong support 2 and 5, mild support 3, 4, and 6, strong oppose 1. There's nothing wrong with sourcing a drug price to a primary source, and readers need to know this information. --Editor 2
• Strong oppose 3, neutral on the rest. I oppose infoboxes! --Editor 3