[WikiEN-l] Low citation quality in BLP articles

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:14:52PM -0500, WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> Can you point to any source in a BLP which comes from a "peer-reviewed  
> publication" ? I mean any of them at all?

That's exactly my point. There is no lack of academic analysis of 
politicians, of artists, etc. But we do not seem to use any of it.

For example, I can find numerous articles on George W. Bush on JStor. 
And once he is out of office there will be no lack of biogaphies written 
to analyze his presidency. We could argue about whether these journals 
and biographies are "peer-reviewed" but they are certaily of a higher 
caliber of scholarship than the average MSNBC web page. 

If, as you have argued, our role is to wait for other scholars to decide 
what's important, and then report that, why don't we do so in BLPs? Why 
not wait a few years for analysis to emerge before we report on things?

 - Carl