On 31/03/07, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
I like Jimbo's notion of a prod system that says "this is crap, if it is still crap in 7 days I will delete it"
I wonder if we could start this by simply saying "Any article that remains unsourced after being marked as such for 7 days is deleted". It sounds draconian, but we now do it for images, why not articles? No, it will not solve all out problems, but it would be a workable step towards saying that it may be better to have no article for the moment than a crap one.
I did this some time ago for the contents of [[Category:Rapists]] and its ilk; unsourced claims were removed, and in the few cases where they constituted the entirety of the article, were replaced with a prod tag saying "no verifiable assertion of significance is left after defamatory unsourced assertions removed, so a contentless article", or words to that effect.
I suspect I had about a one in three success rate and a lot of people screaming about disruption... and sourcing their articles.