Well, exactly. And there a few instances when blogs by people who are otherwise notable could potentially be used. If Howard Dean wrote a blog entry about how he had been swindled in the election, I could see putting that (properly attributed) as a source ("Candidate Howard Dean also claimed to have been swindled,[ref]", etc.). But these are fairly uncommon circumstances, I think.
FF
On 10/19/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
"Fastfission" wrote:
The key issue here is not the topic at hand but whether or not it is verifiable. The main question here seems to be, "Do blogs count as sources?" In certain rare cases they ought to be, but in general they are no better than citing user pages on Wikipedia. If a blog can cite a source, then we can find that source and cite it ourselves, I assume.
If the article is not actually about a particular blog, you'd be on rather shaky ground depending upon it as a "primary source".
IMNSHO
HTH HAND
Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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