On 31/03/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If people don't like the idea of deleting
unsourced articles, how
about blanking them?
More precisely, if an article isn't sourced 7 days after being tagged,
replace the article with a template saying "This article has been
removed due to lack of sources. You can still view the article by
clicking 'History'. Please feel free to recreate this article by
editing the previous version and adding sources."
That way, we're still preventing the public from unknowingly reading
unreliable articles (I would like to include a warning in the
template, but I couldn't think of a wording that didn't apply to all
Wikipedia articles - none of our articles should be relied upon for
anything, really), but we aren't getting rid of anyone's work, and
it's much easier to add sources to the article after the 7 days is up
than it would be if you had to get it undeleted first.
Probably not on living bios, but if those who wish to raze much of
Wikipedia to the ground in order to save it have their way, this would
be better than utter destruction.
- d.