On 3/27/07, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
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.
While talking about it: Were the statements made by Cary Bass, WMF Volunteers Coordinator or by bastique, Wikipedian? And: Is every statement made by bastique through the @wikimedia.org-address an official statement by the volunteer coordinator? (I would not use the term "office representative" here, rather "foundation-representative")
Michael
Michael