On Feb 3, 2008 5:05 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/1/08, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
In my opinion, yes - it would be nice to have a cite for everything.
It's also a horrible mistake to, for example, run through WP articles and either delete everything that isn't cited, or all articles without RS, or both.
But people (for the sake of argument, let's call them deletionists) can and do make that "horrible mistake", one page at a time.
The obvious solution would be to add sources to a redeemable page before some nimrod deletes it, but often that would require telepathic awareness of the next target.
—C.W.
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Is it really your intent to claim that every deleted page is sourceable to begin with? If so, why don't those who fight so ardently to save them give them the best bulletproofing you can give--CITE LOTS OF SOURCES? I've had exactly zero of the articles I've created sent to AfD, because I do not write articles without appropriate sourcing -up front-. No one's going to challenge an article that cites a lot of sources, not even if it's a stub.