Charles Matthews wrote:
Delirium wrote
We consider notable people's blogs reliable
sources on their
personal views, and it seems like saying "just register your
disagreement here and we'll cite it" isn't any worse than the more
roundabout "okay, start a blog, then post your disagreement there, and
then we'll cite that".
But no better, really. In a general Internet-philosophical way, blogs = opinion dumps;
and there doesn't seem to be an adequate reason to duplicate that functionality?
I suppose not, but at the very least if that's the accepted way of
registering objections, we should probably say so. "Want to note your
disagreement with something in a Wikipedia article on you? Register a
livejournal account and post a complaint, and we'll probably cite the
fact that you denied the allegation."
I was just thinking that this is needlessly roundabout, and we could
just have them send the complaints directly, and cite "though Joe Smith
denies the allegations.<ref>some OTRS-like database, mail #392</ref>"
instead of going through the extra livejournal step. The current
approach tends to make it much easier for the class of people who
already run blogs to get their objections noted than the class of people
who don't, which seems weird.
-Mark