[WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services

Fri May 6 15:57:33 UTC 2005

--- slimvirgin at gmail.com wrote:
> 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).
> 
> Sarah

WE are not reporting that he is Kook of the Millenium.
 We are reporting that the Usenet group so labeled
him.  This reporting is accurate and factual, and we
shouldn't be removing the information.

RickK

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