The proposed deletion, and tagging of articles asserted to be unsourced included a large number of articles that were in fact sourced. The most common reason was that suitable sources were put in the external references section, and merely had to be moved. Next most common was that they had been inserted in the text, but without using reference tags. And then there are the articles being prodded because the sources are not inline, even when they are adequate.
Blanking does less harm than deletion, but it still does harm 1. the usual naïve viewer will not realise there;s an article in the history, no matter what notice is placed. Only the editors know about the page history, and almost nobody reads notices. 2. in the time spent to see if there are sources, a source could be added about half the time. 3. there is no reason to think the unsourced BLPs have more actual problems than the sourced ones, whether minimally sourced or even reasonably sourced. Apart from unsourced statements that are actual problems, many BLP violations (and NPOV violations generally) come from the failure , sometimes the deliberate failure, to include relevant material. Therefore, concentrating on these distracts us from the actual problems here. We don't know how to deal with the demands of doing accurate work in any sort of article, and this project is an irrelevant anodyne. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ryan Delaney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:43 PM, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would be uncomfortable with about blanking articles, if it couldnt >> do better in telling whether or not something is referenced than the >> last week or so of deletion nomination has done. >> >> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > I've read this five or six times and I can't figure out what you're > trying to say. Could you rephrase please? > > - causa sui > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
