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

[Denny Colt]

On 3/27/07, Cary Bass <cbass at wikimedia.org> 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.
>
> Cary


If an author writes a book on Jimmy Wales, and gets it published, and it
sells a zillion copies, and it's fair, and balanced, and NPOV, and so on...
it's a fine source.

If the book is released by the author as an e-book in PDF form, the PDF is
still a fine source.

If the book is made into a basic HTML and posted as a website by the author
is still a fine source.

If the book is released chapter by chapter in a newspaper, the individual
newspaper articles are fine sources.

But if the author posts each chapter of the book as a "blog" entry on a
website, it's a bad source.

Huh?

- Denny