On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, doc <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it perhaps time, that we started to demand that basic sourcing was a > pre-requisite of creating an article on any living person? > > This proposal aims (without causing any deletion spree of backlogs) to > instigate the idea that basic sourcing is necessary for any BLP to > remain on wikipedia. People are given time to source it (and can even do > so retrospectively) - but we set time limits on unreferenced BLPs. > > We've currently got 30,000 of these unreferenced things - that needs > sorting (preferably by sourcing rather than deletion) - but stemming the > tide is the first step. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Concrete_proposal
I'll tell you why I like this proposal: it's very binary, and there's very little room for interpretation. If it's an article on a living person, and it has no sources, then it should be speedied. Very little wiggleroom there. I'm totally pro. --Oskar _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
