[WikiEN-l] Putting some perspective on the end of Wikipedia

[Tony Sidaway]

On 9/5/09, Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
 I took a quick look the other day at the categories of unsourced
> articles, which go back to December 2006; to be honest, I don't currently
> have the time or will myself to trawl through what is a Sisyphean task. Even
> limiting that to BLP articles is more than enough to tax the stamina of most
> volunteer editors. It's easy enough to begin a stub, and as easy to tag as
> unsourced, but it does take some commitment to take the bricks and fashion a
> mansion, which I think we should be doing.

I feel strongly that biographies of living people without sources
should be deleted on sight.  They can always be recreated by someone
who possesses at least one reliable source.