On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Cary Bass wrote:
Blog entries are bad sources and BLP violations. They should never be used as source material in a biography. They are not news. A great portion of this article was derived and sourced from blog entries. The history was restored and has been available again for some hours.
I really wish the Office representatives would stop advocating flagrantly bad sourcing practices.
The blog, in this case, is a blog from one of the most important editors in science fiction and fantasy. Her words do not suddenly become lower quality sources because she typed them through Blogger first.
There are a horde of people who will take this statement and attempt to apply it to the letter, and in the process break a bunch of articles. Really, guys. Choose your words more carefully and think. It's like nobody up there has even read the numerous discussions of the problems with citation/sourcing fever we've had here.
-Phil