2009/9/8 Andrew Turvey <[email protected]>: > Working with some other editors, I started [1] to go through older unsourced > living people biographies (BLPs) and either add references or propose for > deletion under the criteria for speedy deletion (CSD), the proposed deletion > process (PROD) or the Articles for Deletion process (AfD). Attack pages and > pages on people which don't assert notability can be speedy deleted under CSD > and PROD can be used for the others if they haven't been PRODed/AfDed before. > However, many editors think that neutral unreferenced articles shouldn't be > PRODed or AFDed unless the proposer has first made an effort to find sources > themselves (see guideline [[WP:BEFORE]]). In my experience being an > unreferenced BLPs is not enough to persuade editors that it should be deleted > - despite being a clear breach of the BLP policy and hence grounds for > deletion; it's more likely to succeed if you can show that it's non-notable.
Gut it of all unreferenced material, per WP:BLP. Leave it a day. PROD it. See if it survives. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
