On 12/11/05, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
- Speedy delete unsourced articles.
8 was another proposal I made. Any article which was created in the last 48 hours and contains no external references whatsoever is a candidate for speedy deletion.
I think this would be a *bad* idea. I usually create stubs with an external reference at least - simply to justify them not being deleted, but not always.
Is it so hard to request that you start doing it always?
As always, we should be encouraging good practice, not coming down heavy-handedly on people who haven't yet had the time/experience to do something perfectly.
Cormac
We're not coming down heavy-handedly on people. The fact that the article is deleted should in no way be taken personally.
New article creation *is* somewhat of a bigger deal than merely editing. We've already turned it off for users that aren't logged in, and some are suggesting that we should turn it off for users that are new, or that we should turn it off altogether for periods of time.
If someone wants to create a new article, that's fine, but asking that they simply locate a single source first is just not a big deal. I've added that the user should be informed of this type of deletion on his or her user talk page. If it was just a simple mistake, the page can be recreated.
Obviously an admin shouldn't be deleting an article when it's just as easy to just find the source themselves. I don't think this needs to be written into the rules, I trust admins to not be that lazy. But at the same time, the onus of finding the source should generally be on the person adding the information.
Anthony