[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[David Gerard]

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