On 1/22/07, Jeff Raymond
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
2) Myspace blogs were recently added to the spam
blacklist by Raul per
request of Jimbo, although no one else seems to know why, how, or per
what rationale. I won't pretend to know what Jimbo's been up to past
not having edited Wikipedia since the is-it-or-is-it-not-a decree, but
perhaps some more explanation on this would be worthwhile? Seems like
we're blocking a shitload of otherwise worthwhile primary source
material for many of our articles for the sake of...well...nothing.
Meanwhile, a blog ''not'' hosted on MySpace is still a-okay, which is
patently absurd on its face. I'm wondering what the thought process was
on this, since no one else seems to want to chime in.
Other blogs aren't a-okay, but it's simply not possible to block all blogs.
Personally, I will allow blogs as sources when its contents can clearly be
attributed to a notable individual. 99% of MySpace members isn't remotely
notable at all.
The point is that many MySpace blogs *are* hosted by notable
individuals, which is what makes the blanked technical-level blocking
(as opposed to editor-level exercise of judgment) problematic. And also
note that we're not talking about *sources*, but *external links*.
While I agree that rarely is a blog a good source for anything, it seems
absurd to me that the blog of Professor X is not a suitable external
link from the page [[Professor X]].
-Mark