On 31/03/07, doc <doc.wikipedia(a)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.
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- Andrew Gray
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