[WikiEN-l] Deletion of unreferenced living person biographies

[stevertigo]

David Goodman<dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would support making it a requirement before taking any article to
> AfD on the basis of lack of references to first make a bona fide
> appropriate search for them, and to say so--this is already
> recommended at [[WP:BEFORE]]
> That way, the people who want to remove presently unsourced articles
> would improve  the encyclopedia in two ways simultaneously first, by
> getting unsourceable articles deleted, and second, by getting
> sourceable ones sourced. They are equal priorities.

Indeed. Turning half of our Garbagemonkeys into [[WP:Sourcerors]] may
be one of the best ideas I've heard all day.

-Stevertigo