[WikiEN-l] Policies, notability et al, was Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Andrew Gray]

2009/8/19 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/19  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
>
>> Well get busy I still once-in-a-while encounter articles whose only
>> source is EB1911.  I would submit that if you actually put these up for
>> AfD you'd get a lot of backflack for SNOW.  Sure the articles could be
>> fixed, but the previous point was that a single tertiary source isn't
>> sufficient for an article and I think it probably is.. depending.
>
> I remember copyediting one article on a now-obscure 18th century
> British parliamentarian. Basically I just rewrote for style. And,
> y'know, I'm pretty sure it'd be a reasonable start on the article, and
> certainly not a deletion candidate just for having 1911EB as its sole
> source.

I've found that a lot of our material tagged as from EB1911 has now
pretty much vanished entirely under three or four years of editing -
it might be instructive to dig through them and see what needs
rewriting anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:1911

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk