On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:47:01 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Not really. If there are no reputable sources for a topic, then that topic may not be suitable for Wikipedia. For example, if the only source for a subject is a bunch of USENET postings or a couple of blogs, the subject may not pass the threshold of notability.
[[Spoo]] is a featured article whose references are mostly Comuserve, GEnie and Usenet forum postings. Those postings turned out to be reputable sources for information on Spoo, after intense scrutiny by large numbers of editors. There are even articles that are about entities that are solely or primarily confined to Usenet itself; [[Kibology]] for example. It'd be hard to have any sort of article there at all without basing it on Usenet postings in some way.
Which is, I presume, why Jossi used the word "may".
As usual the exception proves the rule; the vast majority of things verifiable solely from blogs are indeed uttery unsuitable.
Guy (JzG)