Talk:Political blogs in Australia

Impact of Aussie blogs
Political blogs in Australia, sometimes shortened to Plogs, do not have the same notoriety as blogs in the United States for "breaking stories" or potentially ruining the reputations of politicians or journalists.

Uli Schmetzer may beg to differ. Andjam 03:53, 26 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry it's such a crap article Andjam. Who is Uli Schmetzer and why may he beg to differ? Grumpyyoungman01 08:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)


 * He's a journalist that found himself employment-challenged after Tim Blair spotted a bit of implausible reporting by him. Thanks, Andjam 23:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Retreating from the Spam Event Horizon
This article consisted largely of outgoing links, in violation of WP:NOT, as well as the consensus of Talk:Blog that main articles should only link to the wikipedia article about a given blog, and not to the article itself. Also, because this article otherwise lacking in content, I am suggesting that it be merged into Political blog. While I'm at it, unless someone can demonstrate common usage of the portmanteau 'plog,' I'm removing that from the text as well. -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 16:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * "main articles should only link to the wikipedia article about a given blog, and not to the article itself" - do you mean "and not to the blog itself"? Andjam 06:09, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, sorry, that's what I actually meant. I can type, really I can... -- Thesquire (talk - contribs)


 * Tim Blair, Tim Lambert and Andrew Bartlett have articles, if that helps. Andjam 06:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * How can you retreat from an event horizon? By definition, if you can retreat from it, then it is not an event horizon. Terminology aside, will the page history of Political Blogs in Australia be saved after a merger if one occurs? Grumpyyoungman01 06:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * After a merge, a redirect will be left at this page, where the edit history will remain intact. -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 19:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

"Political blogs in Australia, do not have the same notoriety as blogs in the United States for "breaking stories" or potentially ruining the reputations of politicians or journalists. They have also not attracted the same mainstream media attention which comes along with those activities."

I'd say the same is true with blogs from many other countries. Is it characteristic of Aussie blogs not to have "the same notoriety as blogs in the US (...)"? Is this article really necessary? 80.103.178.175 08:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge carried out
Following the discussion on Political blog I have merged this article into that one. No content or links from here have been lost. TerriersFan 23:02, 7 July 2006 (UTC)