[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Delirium]

Will Beback wrote:
> [[Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-published sources (online and paper)]] 
> (AKA WP:SPS) prohibits most uses of self-published sources. It allows 
> two exceptions: we may use the self-published material from 
> previously-published individual who are recognized experts in the field 
> (a contrversial addition) and we may use self-published sources in 
> articles about the subjects themselves provided a number of criteria are 
> met. My proposal would add another limitation to the existing exceptions.
>   
The problem is that the limitation isn't particularly coherent, because 
whether a source is reliable or not is a completely orthogonal issue. If 
michaelmoore.com had never harrassed Wikipedians, it would not have been 
any more or less reliable as a source about Michael Moore's views---that 
incident has precisely no effect on its reliability (or unreliability) 
as a source.

It sounds like what you want is a rule that certain types of sources 
should not be used due to concerns *other* than their reliability. So 
why not say that?

-Mark