On 4/26/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/26/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Based on what I saw when going through some of that {{unreferenced}}-containing BLP list, the rate of false positives could be in the range of 90% or so. Having deletion be the default result of such a tag could result in losing a lot of useful stuff.
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Why not use {{prod}}?
As Guy said, this would be a variant of proposed deletion, meant specifically for use on articles with unsourced biographical material. PROD has a number of restrictions on it and is only intended for "articles that are uncontroversial deletion candidates that obviously do not belong in the encyclopedia". This would extend to articles on topics that may well belong in the encyclopaedia, but are unsourced.
Which obviously is not going to be uncontroversial.
Mgm