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.

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