On 3/27/07, Denny Colt wikidenny@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/27/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org 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.
Cary
If an author writes a book on Jimmy Wales, and gets it published, and it sells a zillion copies, and it's fair, and balanced, and NPOV, and so on... it's a fine source.
If the book is released by the author as an e-book in PDF form, the PDF is still a fine source.
If the book is made into a basic HTML and posted as a website by the author is still a fine source.
If the book is released chapter by chapter in a newspaper, the individual newspaper articles are fine sources.
But if the author posts each chapter of the book as a "blog" entry on a website, it's a bad source.
Huh?
Actually the three examples preceding the blog example would probably not be considered reliable sources either, as they are self-published. Obviously, however, this is ludicrous for, say, people like Jakob Nielsen. If their books are citable, why shouldn't their self-published works (especially on the same topics) be citable as well?
Johnleemk