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