On 03/10/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/2/06, Kim van der Linde
<kim(a)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.