On Feb 3, 2008 5:05 AM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/1/08, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In my opinion, yes - it would be nice to have a
cite for everything.
It's also a horrible mistake to, for example, run through WP articles
and either delete everything that isn't cited, or all articles without
RS, or both.
But people (for the sake of argument, let's call them deletionists)
can and do make that "horrible mistake", one page at a time.
The obvious solution would be to add sources to a redeemable page
before some nimrod deletes it, but often that would require telepathic
awareness of the next target.
—C.W.
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Is it really your intent to claim that every deleted page is
sourceable to begin with? If so, why don't those who fight so ardently
to save them give them the best bulletproofing you can give--CITE LOTS
OF SOURCES? I've had exactly zero of the articles I've created sent to
AfD, because I do not write articles without appropriate sourcing -up
front-. No one's going to challenge an article that cites a lot of
sources, not even if it's a stub.
--
Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows.