[WikiEN-l] BLP - a case study

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"David Gerard" wrote

> On 28/03/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:54:24 +0100, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> 
> > >the
> > >blind idiot worship of print sources in [[WP:RS]] doesn't help make us
> > >a better encyclopedia.
> 
> > That really helps move the debate along...

> I find it hard to describe it otherwise. Look at this thread. Tell me
> how anyone who's ever actually been written about could regard the
> press as the infallible source of reliability it's being painted as.

Well, to be fair

- not all print sources are newspapers

- not all newspapers are the same

- and not all of us regard writing about breaking news as central to the encyclopedia.

The policy on reliable sources has to cover the entire range of articles, from tabloid celebrities to scholarly antiquarianism.

Charles

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