G'day geni,
On 12/13/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry that you see it as a cheap shot; it's rather the reverse. I regard the argument that research prior to deletion would detract from recent changes patrolling as utterly indefensible. I find it difficult to believe that anyone would seriously attempt to defend it.
Why? We've seen the cost of a failed RC patrol. If you want to put an article on wikipedia doing a minium of research yourself is not too much to ask.
Remember that we are talking about coming across articles that don't cite their sources. If you came across such an article on RC patrol, you would *not* immediately reach for AfD, and you should not be listing stuff on AfD without doing research (if nothing else, because then you couldn't write a good nom, and I've been hot on the issue of AfD nominations for a while now).
{{cleanup-verify}}, save, move on to the next article that crops up.