[WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services

Thu May 5 20:31:28 UTC 2005

slimvirgin at gmail.com (slimvirgin at gmail.com) [050506 06:15]:
> On 5/5/05, David Gerard <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> > Actually famous Usenet crank. More coherent than Sollog. Lots of material
> > on skeptictank.com .

> I think the point here is that WP policy states that we must used only
> reputable or credible published sources as secondary sources, and
> Usenet doesn't count as that. It can be used as primary-source
> material for information about itself, but it can't be used as a
> secondary source of information about someone else, especially not
> when we're using a person's real name (unlike the case of Sollog).

Uh, [[alt.usenet.kooks]] is an article about a Usenet group.

- d.