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Wikipedia:Reliable source examples#Are_weblogs reliable sources? Are weblogs reliable sources? In many cases, no. Most private weblogs ("blogs"), especially those hosted by blog-hosting services such as Blogger, are self-published sources; many of them published pseudonymously. There is no fact-checking process and no guarantee of quality of ...
a list of sources that have never been discussed, or whose reliability should be obvious to most editors; a list of primary, secondary, or tertiary sources; a list of independent or affiliated sources; a list of self-published or traditionally published sources; a representative sample of all sources used on Wikipedia or all sources in existence
Otherwise reliable news sources—for example, the website of a major news organization—that publish in a blog-style format for some or all of their content may be as reliable as if published in standard news article format (See also Wikipedia:Verifiability § Newspaper and magazine blogs).
Self-published sources can be primary, secondary, or tertiary sources. A personal blog is always a self-published source. Here are examples of how different postings on the same blog could be classified: When the blog posting provides information about what the author cooked last night, it is a primary source for its subject matter.
Usually, subject experts will publish in sources with greater levels of editorial control such as research journals, which should be preferred over blog entries if such sources are available. Blogs may be used in certain conditions as secondary sources on living persons; see WP:BLP.
"Blogs" are no more or less good than any other source. "Blog" is just a technical description for the formatting and style structure of a website. rootology (C)(T) 04:30, 13 April 2009 (UTC) A blog is like the editorial page of a newspaper-it is reliable only as a source of opinion, not as a source of fact, and an encyclopedia is about facts ...
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. Blogs that are written on typewriters and then scanned are called typecast or ...
Blogs used as the source for cited facts should meet one of the following criteria: The blog is written by the subject of the article; The blog is written by an individual who has a controlling stake in a company, project, band, product, etc. which is the subject of the article.