On 27/03/07, Cary Bass <cbass(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> On 27/03/07, Cary Bass <cbass(a)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.