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