[WikiEN-l] Deletion of unreferenced living person biographies

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Charles
Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> David Goodman 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]]
>>
> [[WP:BEFORE]] seems to need some work, at least from the angle you are
> arguing. As well as admonitions, perhaps a dedicated page could contain
> things like: a basic checklist before taking an article to AfD;
> topic-based sketches of minimal search-engine checks to find some
> references; and perhaps a flow diagram breaking down the major decisions
> before putting anything up for deletion.

Sounds like a good idea. Start it as a how-to or essay first? Checking
"what links here" and other language encyclopedias are the things I
see people missing out most. Plus not simply searching Wikipedia to
see how often something is mentioned in other pages but not yet
linked.

Carcharoth