[WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites

[Bogdan Giusca]

Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 7:05:16 PM, Ken wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Bogdan Giusca wrote:
>> The problem is that around 95% of those articles are not sourced (or
>> they are sourced from forum and blog posts) and at least 70% won't be
>> able to be sourced because they were never mentioned in the mainstream
>> press -- and probably very few were mentioned in books and journals.

> Perhaps that means you need a broader view of what sourcing is.

Maybe I spent too much time editing history articles, where the source
credibility matters, but accepting blog/forum/usenet posts as valid
sources would be a great mistake, IMO.