> But I can't say that these points really apply in many cases that we > appear to be applying them: We would reject as reliable sources many > hobbyist blogs (or even webcomics) with a stronger reputation to > preserve, less obviously-compromised motivations, and _significantly_ > greater circulation than some obscure corner of Fox News's online > product. What can be the explanation for this discrepancy?
This is more an indication that we need to start using blogs as sources rather than that we have a problem with how we use major media. I recently had to leave a one-sided paragraph in [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]: For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction. We have the fan's side of this. It puts a very different spin on things, but it's in a Usenet post in the thread at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/2649a35b264175b8/b91ef5c1e50f3439?#b91ef5c1e50f3439 and it's completely unusuable under Wikipedia sourcing policies (even as a self-published source, since it makes claims about other people). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l