On 10/17/07, Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com wrote:
James Farrar wrote:
On 18/10/2007, Will Beback will.beback.1@gmail.com wrote:
To restate my proposal: "Self-published sites that are actively harassing Wikipedia editors should not be considered reliable sources or suitable external links for articles. "
Does that give us anything beyond what we already have in [[WP:SPS]]?
[[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources (online and paper)]] (AKA WP:SPS) prohibits most uses of self-published sources. It allows two exceptions: we may use the self-published material from previously-published individual who are recognized experts in the field (a contrversial addition) and we may use self-published sources in articles about the subjects themselves provided a number of criteria are met. My proposal would add another limitation to the existing exceptions.
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But we're not linking to it as a reference. KP