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

[K P]

On 3/27/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 27/03/07, Cary Bass <cbass at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> > Blog entries are bad sources and BLP violations.
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> See, this is the sort of rule that if applied without thought leads to
> occasional stupid results.
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> - d.



It's actually, imo, the sort of rule that if thoughtlessly not applied leads
to bad results.  All the stuff about a published book being posted on a blog
is a non-starter, you may link to the blog, but it's the published book that
is the source.  Blogs are opinion pieces, no matter who is writing the blog,
they are under no obligation to support their OPINION in a factual or
netural way.

You get around this by quoting the blog if someone else besides its author
has decided that what is written in the blog is notable, as I suggested in a
prior post.  By all means, link to the blog, but don't include the blog at
all, unless some other reliable source considers what is said in the blog
notable.

KP