On 5/6/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
David, I take your point about him, but I've tried to make it clear that I'm not arguing about the individual, but about policy. Our secondary sources have to be authoritative, reliable, credible, and in some sense reputable. We can use Usenet as a source about itself, including as a source about its awards, but we can't use it to name individuals, because that's using Usenet as a source for claims about that person's notability. He isn't notable except in Usenet terms. Please see Mperel's argument about naming schoolgirls who've been labeled sluts at such-and-such a school, on that school's page. It's a very good analogy, yet we wouldn't dream of doing it.
Sarah