[WikiEN-l] Bauer DRV question - history (was Wikimedia Foundation sued)

[Philip Sandifer]

On Mar 27, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Cary Bass wrote:

> Blog entries are bad sources and BLP violations.  They should never be
> used as source material in a biography.  They are not news.  A great
> portion of this article was derived and sourced from blog entries.   
> The
> history was restored and has been available again for some hours.

I really wish the Office representatives would stop advocating  
flagrantly bad sourcing practices.

The blog, in this case, is a blog from one of the most important  
editors in science fiction and fantasy. Her words do not suddenly  
become lower quality sources because she typed them through Blogger  
first.

There are a horde of people who will take this statement and attempt  
to apply it to the letter, and in the process break a bunch of  
articles. Really, guys. Choose your words more carefully and think.  
It's like nobody up there has even read the numerous discussions of  
the problems with citation/sourcing fever we've had here.

-Phil