I use the somewhat shorter message, Do not create articles without references. If you have the information to write the article, you got it from somewhere. Say where . Articles without references are likely to get deleted. I advise you to do this the moment you create the article, to avoid problems.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:52 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, doc <[email protected]> wrote: >> phoebe ayers wrote: >>> I am all in favor of seeing if we can change people's behavior in >>> subtle ways; it will take many solutions all working together to fix >>> blp's. >>> >>> -- phoebe >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >> >> A very simple and non-controversial start might be to ask New Page >> patrolers, when they see a new unsourced BLP (or indeed any unsourced >> article) to put a polite message on the creator's talk page saying >> >> "Thanks for your article [XYZ]. Wikipedia asks that all material be >> verifiable from reliable sources, it is important that readers and other >> users can check what's been writen. You don't seem to have told us the >> source you used for this article. Please can you edit the article to >> indicate what the source is? (Click here for help if you don't know >> how.) Unsourced material about living people may be removed if challenged." >> >> That doesn't bite or threaten any newbies, although if established >> editors keep getting these on their talk pages, threats might be warranted. > > Yes, definitely -- I try to do this whenever I dabble in new page > patrolling, and it depresses me to no end that everyone doesn't do > this. It's common politeness. The majority of new articles aren't > suitable for wp, but they aren't spam or pure vandalism either -- and > we need to do a much better job of interacting with these potential > good contributors. > > For a template, I think you're looking for something like > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Welcomeunsourced, only less > wordy and not only for reverted edits. > > p.s. per my previous msg, I guess I'm showing my age -- I think I was > thinking of the new page template proposal from 2005: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_article_template > > -- phoebe > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
