I'm not conversant with the 'international medical literature' so I shall assume you know what you are talking about. However, I don't take wikipedia as an authorative source on anything.
I disagree. Wikipedia links are very good, specially for informal discussions like this one.
- The content is readable by most people without having to have specialized knowledge on the subject.
- The content is open and reviewed by multiple people.
- You have links to the references. In this case there is a link to this NIH article.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667526/ But the content is more technical and harder to read for most people.
I'm a Wikipedian, and I'm fully with you in not taking Wikipedia as authoritative about much of anything, because I have seen how the sausage is made at Wikipedia. That said, after a Google search, I saw that the two articles I linked to showed that many medical syndromes are named without a possessive ending on the personal name associated with the syndrome, including Down syndrome, and that was the immediate point at issue.
By the way, I try to light a candle as well as curse the darkness at Wikipedia, by gathering lists of good sources for all the Wikipedians to use,
I wish that Wikipedia were much better, but the current way to make it better is for people to roll up their sleeves and do something about making it better.
