> 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



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