On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
If they are just personal opinion, that's what they are, inappropriate sources.
If something being personal opinion is enough to reject a source then there is a great deal we need to be rejecting that we are not, such as a rather large chunk of the popular media, many blog citations, and pretty much everything else that no body has ever bothered to create a formal review process for... I'd support it, but I thought Wikipedia's standard was verifiability not truth.
Easy to verify that someone has an opinion. A little harder to verify whether the opinion is well founded. Is a scholarly opinion expressed in an academic journal of literary criticism different in essense from an opinion expressed in a New York Times editorial? Both opinions are the product of accomplished and experienced professionals.
Fred