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But now that he has published this as a blog post, could I rewrite it, cite his blog post and whatever sources he cited, and repost to wikipedia?
by aftbit 3y ago
But now that he has published this as a blog post, could I rewrite it, cite his blog post and whatever sources he cited, and repost to wikipedia?
- grotorea 3y agoVery likely to run afoul of both notability (one source is generally not enough) and reliable source (A blog post? From who?)
- Zenst 3y agoProbably, even cite this post on HN as well and go for the double - reference it and guarantee be some YT vids as well that go into this era of history.
- lproven 3y agoI think you can see a contemporary comment to that effect on the blog post. :-) I think I wrote it in 2006 and it was deleted in 2007. The spur to write it was the release of the first Intel-based Macs, which was 2006.
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoThere are rumours that low-tier newspapers do this for interested parties if you give them some cash.
- qingcharles 3y agoNot even low-tier in 2024. Money is scarce. I can think of some very big newspapers that will include articles for cash these days. You can find contacts to get this done for you in certain forums :)
- pdpi 3y agoWikipedia prefers secondary sources to primary sources (as befits an encyclopaedia), and the blog post is a primary source for most of its content, so it would still be frowned upon.
- andrewla 3y agoThis would be a secondary source -- the primary source would be the manufacturers themselves. Secondary doesn't mean that there is no original research; in fact it's the opposite. Primary contains facts but no analysis or synthesis, secondary references facts established elsewhere but adds context.