Talk:United States v. Seale

Blog sources

This article cites two blog posts as sources, so a word is in order to preempt any concerns with WP:SPS. Although SPS expresses wariness of blogs as sources, it explains that "when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications." Put another way, the concern underlying SPS is the author's credentials; where they are not in doubt, SPS has little force. It urges caution rather than demanding exclusion.

One of the two posts cited is at SCOTUSblog, itself a notable and reliable source, even in the BLP context.[1] That post's author, Lyle Denniston, has covered the court professionally for nearly five decades, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Society of Professional Journalists, and appears on an NPR program covering the court.[2] The other post is by Professor Steve Vladeck, who teaches structural conlaw and the federal courts course at American University.[3] He is also quoted, independently of his post, in the NLJ story on Seale, also cited in the article. Neither Vladeck's nor Denniston's credentials on the subject are seriously in doubt, and so the sources can be used consistently with SPS.

Vladeck's post certainly cannot be used to support claims about Seale himself, however, and the same may also apply to Denniston's post. WP:BLP#Reliable sources forbids use of blogs "as sources for material about a living person." That warning encompasses any claim about a living person, regardless of the subject of the article containing it. Accordingly, I have not used either post as a source for material on Seale himself.- Simon Dodd { U·T·C·WP:LAW } 13:12, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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