On 9/8/09, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/8 David Gerard <[email protected]>: >> Gut it of all unreferenced material, per WP:BLP. Leave it a day. PROD >> it. See if it survives. > > BLP doesn't actually let you do that. It only allows for removal of > unsourced contentious material. Mass proding will likely get you > blocked under the disruption clause. >
It is a common myth that the biographies of living persons policy doesn't permit you to remove unreferenced material. This can already be done under the verifiability policy--with any article, let alone biographies. You absolutely should remove stuff that looks like it was made up on the spot--which accounts for a large part of many of our more slight biographies. For example, we wouldn't want to leave an unsourced statement such as "X was made with the help of a grant from the World Health Organisation" in an article on documentary film X, even though that is a far from contentious statement. Why would we leave in "An expert bassoonist, Y has performed with the Royal Philharmonic" unsourced in a biographical article about nuclear physicist Y, whether the subject was living or dead? "Mass proding" hasn't been suggested. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
