On 27/03/07, Cary Bass cbass@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
[[Groklaw]] for an example famous to geeks.
The Nielsen-Hayden blog way beats mainstream newspapers for reliability regarding science fiction. WP:RS is a good idea but its present state is the product of obsessives unable to tolerate the concept of editorial judgement being required.
- d.