> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> If they are >> just personal opinion, that's what they are, inappropriate sources. > > If something being personal opinion is enough to reject a source then > there is a great deal we need to be rejecting that we are not, such as > a rather large chunk of the popular media, many blog citations, and > pretty much everything else that no body has ever bothered to create a > formal review process for... I'd support it, but I thought > Wikipedia's standard was verifiability not truth. >
Easy to verify that someone has an opinion. A little harder to verify whether the opinion is well founded. Is a scholarly opinion expressed in an academic journal of literary criticism different in essense from an opinion expressed in a New York Times editorial? Both opinions are the product of accomplished and experienced professionals. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
