Phil Boswell wrote:
"Steve Block" steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote in message news:4402F3B8.8090100@myrealbox.com...
Are we suggesting any blogger is a reputable expert on a given field?
Not necessarily, but we are in danger of declaring that an Expert with a Blog is no longer to be considered an Expert.
Which croggles the mind...
HTH HAND
I don't intend any such thing. But given Burns' writing on webcomics is online, it makes it hard to quantify the credentials of his asserted claim to expertness. I have no problem with established experts having blogs, as long as guidance at [[WP:RS]] is noted. I have a problem with someone who is cited as an expert because they have a blog on a topic. Burns falls between the two stools, having also written for Comixpedia, an online magazine which whilst I am happy to entertain as a source others have indicated a refusal to do so. I would not describe Burns as an expert in the field anymore than I would describe Andrew Johnson of ninth art an expert in the comics field. I would describe them as advocates. Their position is in advocating their particular field of interest to respectability.
Steve block