Michel Vuijlsteke wrote: > 2010/1/21 David Gerard <[email protected]> > > >> Does anyone have a summary of the articles deleted in the present >> blood-crazed axe frenzy? Is there a list up? And/or a description of >> the general type of BLP deleted? >> >> I understand many were hardly-viewed articles with no edits in the >> last six months. Which sounds innocuous enough, but remember that >> [[John Seigenthaler]] was one of those until the subject noticed. >> > > > I don't get the entire controversy: is it not the case that only > *statements* can be sourced, and not entire articles? > Does that not mean that if [[John Seigenthaler]] contained at least one > <ref> at the time, it wouldn't have been affected by this? > > So why not go the whole hog and delete all BLPs where not every statement is > sourced? > Nostalgia - so 2003. It's argument by reductio ad absurdum. Or by negation of "soft security" - same thing really. Just because a measure doesn't deal with 100% of a problem, doesn't mean we should be grateful for the 80% it does deal with. Everything has to be invented and tried, starting with [[Category:Living people]], to see if it can become part of the solution.
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