PeakoilWiki:General disclaimer

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PeakOilWiki is an online open-content collaborative encyclopedia, that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of human knowledge. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in PeakOilWiki. However, PeakOilWiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.

No formal peer review

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators, or anyone else connected with PeakOilWiki in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

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Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual PeakOilWiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of PeakOilWiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and PeakOilWiki regarding your use or modification of this information ; neither is anyone at PeakOilWiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on PeakOilWiki or any of its associated projects.

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If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial, or risk management) please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

Not Medical advice

PeakOilWiki may contain articles on medical topics; however, no warranty whatsoever is made that any of the articles are accurate. There is absolutely no assurance that any statement contained or cited in an article touching on medical matters is true, correct, precise, or up-to-date. The overwhelming majority of such articles are written, in part or in whole, by nonprofessionals. Even if a statement made about medicine is accurate, it may not apply to you or your symptoms.

The medical information provided on PeakOilWiki is, at best, of a general nature and cannot substitute for the advice of a medical professional (for instance, a qualified doctor/physician, nurse, pharmacist/chemist, and so on). PeakOilWiki is not a doctor.

None of the individual contributors, system operators, developers, sponsors of PeakOilWiki nor anyone else connected to PeakOilWiki can take any responsibility for the results or consequences of any attempt to use or adopt any of the information presented on this web site.

Nothing on PeakOilWiki or included as part of any project of Peakoil.com, should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a medical opinion or otherwise engage in the practice of medicine.

PeakOilWiki contains articles on an array of topics. A relatively small fraction of these topics may normally be censored by educational, governmental, corporate, parental and other filtering schemes.

• Some PeakOilWiki articles may contain words or language that are considered profane, vulgar or offensive by some readers.
• Some articles may contain names, images, artworks or descriptions of events that some cultures restrict access to.
• PeakOilWiki contains images, some of which are considered objectionable or offensive by some readers.
• Many articles contain frank discussion of controversial topics. Some subjects that are discussed have criminal applications in some jurisdictions. Others contain information on dangerous or otherwise risky activities.
• PeakOilWiki may contain spoilers.
• PeakOilWiki may contain triggers for people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
• PeakOilWiki may contain images and videos which can trigger epileptic seizures and other medical conditions.
• It should be noted that as PeakOilWiki is open to contributions from the public, there may at any time be graffiti present on PeakOilWiki.
• There may be medical, legal or other information that is normally also the subject of professional opinions; PeakOilWiki is not a substitute for seeking the help of a professional. Please note: PeakOilWiki does not give legal advice, medical advice, or any other professional advice.

Some of these articles contain warnings, but many do not.

In any case, PeakOilWiki is a work in progress, and many articles contain errors, bias, duplication, or simply need attention from editors. We encourage readers to help us fix these problems. The great majority of articles are written primarily or solely by individuals who are not subject matter experts, and may lack academic or professional credentials in the area.

PeakOilWiki contains obscure information that would not be covered in a conventional encyclopedia. PeakOilWiki's coverage of subjects is patchy, based on the whims of its volunteer contributors (in particular, subjects of interest to young technical people are likely, but not certain, to receive heavier coverage than other subjects). Readers should not judge the importance of topics based on their coverage in PeakOilWiki, nor assume that a topic is important merely because it is the subject of a PeakOilWiki article.