Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org writes:
David Gerard wrote:
On 27/03/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
Blog entries are bad sources and BLP violations.
See, this is the sort of rule that if applied without thought
leads to
occasional stupid results.
I'm sorry, David, you are right. Let me rephrase that. I've
never seen
a blog entry that was reliable enough to be used as source
material.
These blog entries do not meat WP:RS, and any material derived
from them
should be eliminated.
Cary.
What about blog posts that later get published? IE, Nick Szabo is an academic who often writes "blog posts"http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/ which later get published as papers http://szabo.best.vwh.net/. Previously, I had used some of his financial history essays as sources for starting articles. Should they be deleted now?