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I didn't claim that blogs were consistently reliable sources. I claimed that they were routinely used as evidence of notability. Evidence of notability != Reputable source.

I'm not making anything up either; I have penned several articles on Wikipedia and gotten them through the AfC process with much less notability evidence than the Apache Arrow draft had. The difference was that I used to be an established contributor so the rules were not as harsh against we as they are against newbies and unknown contributors.

Also, you can look at the link I gave you and see that the notability rules are not uniformly applied.