[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[Jeff Raymond]

Cary Bass wrote:
> Jeff Raymond wrote:
>> Cary Bass wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> This is the type of backwards, ten-years-ago thinking that I really wish
>> we'd be able to overcome.  I can list off a dozen blogs that are
>> perfectly
>> reliable for the subject matter that they offer up in various areas of
>> culture and information.  This idea that "self-published" = "bad" is
>> antiquated thinking.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
> This sort of insulting commentary is entirely inappropriate.

It's about as inappropriate as a blanket statement that you've never seen
a blog entry that was reliable enough to be used as source material.  I'm
not really seeing the problem here.  It *is* backwards, it *is*
antiquated.  When the mainstream media consistently uses blogs as reliable
information for their stories, there's absolutely no reason why we can't
do the same thing.

-Jeff