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The short answer is yes. In general, any editor is allowed to quote/cite relevant text, even if that text comes from a blog (regardless of the who wrote the bl

The short answer is yes. In general, any editor is allowed to quote/cite relevant text, even if that text comes from a blog (regardless of the who wrote the blog). The long answer is that if the article's content is disputed such a scheme will probably not last very long under scrutiny. The personal blog of Paul Krugman or Bruce Schneier would obviously carry more weight than text from John Doe's blog created last week. Further, the published books or journal articles of scholars would obviously take precedence over blog posts. So, while citing things is always good, you can't really count on citing Encyclopedia Dramatica entries to keep your additions from being deleted/reverted/edited/removed. The authority of the citation matters when your edit is disputed—simply slapping a footnote+link on your text isn't a magical shield.

derefr 16y ago
> The authority of the citation matters when your edit is disputed It'd be nice if there were some empirical rule for determining link authority—it would probably stop a lot of pointless debating if there were some evidence on the table either way. For example, what if every Internet-attribution only "proved" notability to the weight of its calculated PageRank at the time of inclusion? Then you could automatically discard attributions that user X gave for a link to user X's blog, but if Schneier decided to pull some Wiki content onto his blog and quote it, that would be notable, both under PageRank and the spirit of the rule.