[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[Ryan Delaney]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke <wikipedia at zog.org> wrote:
> 2010/1/21 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>
>> Does anyone have a summary of the articles deleted in the present
>> blood-crazed axe frenzy? Is there a list up? And/or a description of
>> the general type of BLP deleted?
>>
>> I understand many were hardly-viewed articles with no edits in the
>> last six months. Which sounds innocuous enough, but remember that
>> [[John Seigenthaler]] was one of those until the subject noticed.
>
>
> I don't get the entire controversy: is it not the case that only
> *statements* can be sourced, and not entire articles?
> Does that not mean that if  [[John Seigenthaler]] contained at least one
> <ref> at the time, it wouldn't have been affected by this?
>
> So why not go the whole hog and delete all BLPs where not every statement is
> sourced?
>
> Michel

I'm not going to speak for others here, but after a quick gloss of
this, it seems that the admins in question are deleting BLPs where
*nothing* is sourced. Which, leaving "out of process deletion" issues
aside (ugh), is a view that at least has some inherent plausibility,
and is nothing at all like what you are describing.

- causa sui