Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-45692830-20200610235524/@comment-45692830-20200611053155

So I took some time to trawl through old threads and found Forum:Are Blogs valid sources?. There's not that much here different from the actual policy in T:UNOFF REF, but we can make it a little bit clearer as to my argument that the current policy wasn't built to handle the current situation.

"Blogs are generally invalid sources for statements of fact, except when: [...] they are independent of the BBC, but take a scholarly approach, using sources deemed acceptable by tardis:resources (nevertheless all such statements should be specifically footnoted or classed as the opinion of the researcher inline)"

- User: CzechOut

But this just isn't the approach taken by About Time or Running Through Corridors, two of the closest analogues. The policy seems designed for a cataloguing, rather than an analysis. Equally, however, it's not the case that the statements made in TARDIS Eruditorum are those of opinion. While I may object to some bits of scientific inaccuracy in her treatment of alchemy, for instance, I still acknowledge that the particular flaw exhibited is one we'd expect to see in a literary analysis of Doctor Who. It's very much a scholarly work. So it fits none of the categories that currently exist.