How we cite · intoxicant.wiki

Every value is a quote

Nothing on a compound page is written by us. Every dose, timing, interaction, risk and fact is copied word for word from a harm reduction site, Wikipedia, PubChem, DailyMed or a medical journal, and carries a small tag (PW, TS, WP, PC) that links to where it came from. If no source has something, the page says so instead of filling the gap.

Why we link a specific revision

Wikipedia, PsychonautWiki and TripSit are edited constantly, by anyone. A page that says one thing today can say something different tomorrow, sometimes better, sometimes wrong. A plain link always opens the newest version, so it can't show what the page said when we copied from it.

That's why each source tag, and the "revision used" link under every Wikipedia link, points to the exact saved version we read. Wikipedia and PsychonautWiki keep every past version of every page forever at a permanent address. Hover a source tag to see its revision number and the date we read it.

This lets you do three things:

Check us. Open the revision and confirm that the quote on our page matches it word for word.
See what changed. Compare the revision we used with the live page. If the source has since been corrected, you'll see it.
Hold us to a date. You always know how old our copy is.

When a source has no revisions

TripSit's factsheets don't keep public versions. For TripSit we save the exact data we downloaded, with its date and a fingerprint (a SHA-256 hash), so we can prove what it said when we read it. PubChem and DailyMed values link to the record we read and show the date.

Keeping pages current

We re-read sources and compare them with what's on the page. Any change, whether a newer revision, a corrected value or a removed claim, is written to the public edit log, which is never edited or deleted. Readers can also mark any value as verified or distrusted, and values that suddenly attract distrust are flagged for a person to look at.

Licenses

Wikipedia and PsychonautWiki text is used under CC BY-SA 4.0. PubChem and DailyMed are public domain. TripSit factsheet data is used under TripSit's terms. Each page lists which of these it quotes.