Anthony DiPierro wrote:
I'd be fine with just adding {{unreferenced}} if {{unreferenced}} included a statement that the article will be deleted if no source is added within 24 hours. Is that an adequete compromise?
What purpose does deleting the article within 24 hours serve? Wikipedia is a project to eventually produce an encyclopedia; not to produce a perfect one by some deadline. The information should only be deleted if it is *unverifiable* (by reasonable means, anyway), not only because nobody has bothered to try to verify it yet. In the latter case it should be marked as unverified, and await either an expansion and verification or eventual decision that it cannot be verified and deletion. Removing information that could be verified by hasn't yet would be a net harm to the project's goal of producing a quality encyclopedia in the long run.
-Mark