On 12/15/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
The crux of the problem is in what the endgame should be for an unreferenced article. Is it deletion or improvement? I would easily support improvement. If an article is unreferenced that does not imply that it is wrong; we just don't know if it's right.
There's no question over the endgame. The question is over what to do in the meantime. If we don't know whether or not something is right, it shouldn't be in an article. Doesn't mean it can't be in user space, or on a talk page, or in the edit history, or in the deleted articles history. That's my interpretation of [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]], anyway.
Actions based on a deletion endgame consistently attract bitter disputes and needless stress. In planning new strategies this should be considered from the beginning. in the hope of avoiding the stress. Without that this will be no different from AfD.
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The endgame in either case is a well referenced article. The question is how do we get there.
Anthony