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(a)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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