Talk:Gainesville Eight

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Recent articles about Gainesville Eight reunion event in August 2023

These are three FreeGNV blog articles by a former Gainesville Sun journalist who summarized an August 2023 reunion of the Gainesville Eight in images and text:

Cunningham, Ron (August 27, 2023). "Visual reflections on the Gainesville 8". FreeGNV blog. Photos and text discussing August 2023 Gainesville Eight reunion. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
Cunningham, Ron (August 25, 2023). "The two feds in the broom closet". FreeGNV blog. Brief historical retrospective essay about a Gainesville Eight memory. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
Cunningham, Ron (August 25, 2023). "What difference a half century?". FreeGNV blog. Photos and text discussing August 2023 Gainesville Eight reunion. Retrieved September 3, 2023.

I placed these in the Talk page for now because I was unsure about current rules related to blogs as Wikipedia evolves. Emerman (talk) 02:19, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

While Cunningham probably qualifies as an established subject-matter expert, the provision at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Avoid self-published sources against using a blog as a source about living persons would block use of the above blog posts, in my opinion. The Sun did cover the reunion, although I will admit I didn't read that coverage. Donald Albury 12:46, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Some blogs are actually journalistic websites with various writers, but as you mention, this one is not; it is a self-published personal blog, so I guess it goes under that category you referenced. I thought that putting these three items in here would help inform anyone interested in the info in the links, but I did not place them into the article. I've never actually placed links of interest into a Talk page before this, but it doesn't seem a bad idea as long as I don't put it into the article page (aside from if someone decides something in a talk page should be incorporated into an article, which is not likely to be the case here). Thanks for looking at it.

By the way, I did not realize the Sun covered the reunion, so I will look for that. I had stumbled on the blog items. I will add to the article links to some national coverage of the original historical event soon, rather than this blog item. Emerman (talk) 22:06, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the link to the Sun item. It is by Ron Cunningham as a correspondent to the Sun. I don't know if you will be able to see it (I am subscribed to the digital paper). Donald Albury 00:32, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Emerman (talk) 00:34, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]