[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[Gwern Branwen]

Cary Bass <cbass at wikimedia.org> writes:

> 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.
>
> Cary.

What about blog posts that later get published? IE, Nick Szabo is 
an academic who often writes "blog 
posts"<http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/> which later get 
published as papers <http://szabo.best.vwh.net/>. Previously, I 
had used some of his financial history essays as sources for 
starting articles. Should they be deleted now?

-- 
Gwern
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