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Yeah, the smaller articles are usually written by a single person who has spent an inordinate amount of time in the domain of the article and the article is goo

Yeah, the smaller articles are usually written by a single person who has spent an inordinate amount of time in the domain of the article and the article is good. I started this article recently and was very impressed by how everyone came together to reach a consensus on a very niche topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeqertaq_Avannarleq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeqertaq_Avannarleq But then the other day I noticed that a page about a certain very popular K-Pop band was missing one of their major releases, so I added it, but then got into a pissing war with an editor of that niche who argued that the band's own Instagram page was not a valid source for information on their releases?!

Jiro 5y ago
The reason that someone said the band's Instagram page isn't a valid source for information about the band is because of the rules about self-published sources. The rules were patched at some point with a narrow exception, to allow sources for things like a band listing their own releases (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ABOUTSELF https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ABOUTSE... ) but it's easy for rules lawyers to insist that that patch doesn't apply. And people with OCD really don't like narrow exceptions.