On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Will Beback wrote:
For some reason
MichaelMoore.com seems to be the
single example folks
are interested in. But we also need a policy that can address
non-celebrity blogs like ASM, forums like WP, wikis like ED, and any
other self-published website that actively engages in harassing
Wikipedia editor. Most of them are only usable as sources for themselves
anyway, so the collateral damage of re-categorizing them as unreliable
would be minimal.
However, that should not affect their use in talk pages, policy discussions,
etc. (Though I suppose that technically they are being used as sources for
themselves.)
I'm really tired of people saying "attack sites are unreliable sources for
use in articles" and then using that to ban their use in places other than
articles.