David Gerard wrote:
On 21/01/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
Meanwhile, I've already restored about 5 of those in the article, and I'll try to get to more later. a quick post somewhere saing "we know these things are true, can we find sources" and it'd be done in 5 minutes. Instead, knee-jerk reaction time, whee!!!
That knee-jerk reaction was absolutely a right process per WP:BLP - blank the unsourced silly thing, then add back sources with hard verifiability.
Simply blanking without deletion means that anybody can fix it up, not just admins.
Ec