# Talk:Capitol Hill station

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What exactly is Capitol Hill Seattle Blog (CHS Blog)? According to its online About page, "On CHS, anybody can add to the site. You just need to login and start posting." In other words, a typical collaborative or group blog. This is not dispelled by CHS Blog's Wikipedia page, which contains just three sentences:

The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog (also known as CHS Blog) is a hyperlocal news website covering the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, United States. Established in 2006, its publisher is Justin Carder. Its reporting has been sourced by the Seattle Times, Seattle Metropolitan, KCPQ-TV, the Puget Sound Business Journal, and others.

For our purposes, that last sentence is problematic. A handful of WP:RS having cited CHS Blog should not sway us in determining whether or not to cite CHS Blog ourselves. We must rely solely on Wikipedia:Verifiability. And in doing so, it's hard to escape the conclusion that CHS Blog—self-published by its founder, Justin Carder—violates WP:BLOGS, which directs: Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer. (Emphasis in original.)
I propose that we remove all citations to CHS Blog and replace with better sources. NedFausa (talk) 21:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

That section of WP:V only applies to BLPs, not a catch-all. The relevant policy is at WP:USINGSPS, which does not ban their use and encourages users to think critically about using sources, which is something that has been done before wrt blogs. The CHS sources used here are for information that is not found in Seattle's newspapers, archived TV/radio news station articles, or in transit documents, so replicating them would be extremely difficult. At the same time, the authors of these pieces include Carder, the president of the local historical society, and an interview. I can't see any of these being controversial enough to be removed without proper investigation. This discussion should not be split away from Talk:Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. SounderBruce 22:04, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
The crucial part of Capitol Hill Seattle Blog is not its brevity but this: Its reporting has been sourced by the Seattle Times, Seattle Metropolitan, KCPQ-TV, the Puget Sound Business Journal, and others. Such reporting-on-reporting by reliable sources is a sign of reliability. In other words, I agree with SounderBruce. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:40, 18 June 2020 (UTC)