On Thu, 20 May 2010, Carcharoth wrote:
The
combination results in a badly distended view of knowledge that has wrecked more than a
handful of articles on Wikipedia.
Some examples may help.
I already gave an example of the Marion Zimmer Bradley article: a published
author has a dispute with a fan. The published author's side of the story is
in normal sources. The fan's side of the story is self-published. Wikipedia
won't accept self-published sources that make claims about other people;
therefore, only one side of the story gets into Wikipedia.