[WikiEN-l] Re: So what do we do about this?

Thu Oct 20 16:27:46 UTC 2005

Well, exactly. And there a few instances when blogs by people who are
otherwise notable could potentially be used. If Howard Dean wrote a
blog entry about how he had been swindled in the election, I could see
putting that (properly attributed) as a source ("Candidate Howard Dean
also claimed to have been swindled,[ref]", etc.). But these are fairly
uncommon circumstances, I think.

FF

On 10/19/05, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Fastfission"  wrote:
> > The key issue here is not the topic at hand but whether or not it is
> > verifiable. The main question here seems to be, "Do blogs count as
> > sources?"
> > In certain rare cases they ought to be, but in general they are no better
> > than citing user pages on Wikipedia. If a blog can cite a source, then we
> > can find that source and cite it ourselves, I assume.
>
> If the article is not actually about a particular blog, you'd be on rather
> shaky ground depending upon it as a "primary source".
>
> IMNSHO
>
> HTH HAND
> --
> Phil
> [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
>
>
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