On 03/10/06, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/2/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce? Have them remove any uncited crap. If ALA 2000 is a specific list with set entries, remove anything that shouldn't be there. Be bold!
That would amount to deleting around 90% of the article as unsourced........
That's what I did to get [[List of unusual personal names]] under control. Since then, I've been reverting any addition that doesn't cite sources showing that (1) there exists a person with this name, and (2) the name is considered unusual.
It's the sort of thing they have to do to keep [[Films considered the worst ever]] under control. It's clearly a useful article subject, but you need some real hardarses on hand to keep it usably referenced. [[List of longest novels]] was started with a referencing requirement.
- d.