A similar proposal to this was floated earlier - it's still a very
damaging idea.
Consider [[Category:Senegalese politicians]]. All very notable,
important sorts of people. About half of the articles are unsourced,
generally stubs.
Now, yes, we obviously can find sources for articles on all the prime
ministers of Senegal. That's not the issue. The issue is that there
are very few editors working in this area - often not enough to
handle a wave of PRODs on their articles. It's an area of high
importance to the project and low participation. To add a rule that
allows for deletion in this area makes it far too easy to overwhelm
these vital areas with deletions and gut our coverage with no
attention to whether or not the articles are actually erroneous.
BLPs and sourcing are a problem, but they need a far more subtle
solution than this.
Best,
Phil Sandifer
sandifer(a)english.ufl.edu
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a
boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
On Apr 26, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
I started a discussion at [[WT:BLP]] on the proposal
that we implement
a variant of proposed deletion as follows:
It is proposed that this article be deleted as a biography of
a living individual which does not cite its references or
sources.
If you can improve the article by sourcing it, please edit
this page and do so. You may remove this message if you add
reliable independent sources. This template should not be
removed without first sourcing the article.
The article may be deleted if this message remains in place
for 14 days. (This template was added: 26 April 2007.)
If you created the article, please don't take offense.
Instead, please improve the article so that it is acceptable
according to the policy on biographies of living individuals.
The idea would be to give a bureaucracy-free route to removing
*unsourced* biographies. The unsourced condition may be the result of
removal of questionable sources for negative statements, that should
not make a difference.
There's also a debate at [[WP:AN]] about this.
Guy (JzG)
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http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
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