On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <[email protected]> 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? > > Michel
I'm not going to speak for others here, but after a quick gloss of this, it seems that the admins in question are deleting BLPs where *nothing* is sourced. Which, leaving "out of process deletion" issues aside (ugh), is a view that at least has some inherent plausibility, and is nothing at all like what you are describing. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
