On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Will Beback wrote:
For some reason MichaelMoore.com seems to be the single example folks are interested in. But we also need a policy that can address non-celebrity blogs like ASM, forums like WP, wikis like ED, and any other self-published website that actively engages in harassing Wikipedia editor. Most of them are only usable as sources for themselves anyway, so the collateral damage of re-categorizing them as unreliable would be minimal.
However, that should not affect their use in talk pages, policy discussions, etc. (Though I suppose that technically they are being used as sources for themselves.)
I'm really tired of people saying "attack sites are unreliable sources for use in articles" and then using that to ban their use in places other than articles.