On 3 Oct 2006, at 19:01, Mark Wagner wrote:
On 10/2/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce? Have them remove any uncited crap. If ALA 2000 is a specific list with set entries, remove anything that shouldn't be there. Be bold!
That would amount to deleting around 90% of the article as unsourced........
That's what I did to get [[List of unusual personal names]] under control. Since then, I've been reverting any addition that doesn't cite sources showing that (1) there exists a person with this name, and (2) the name is considered unusual.
My (Japanese) niece has the longest name in Japanese history. There are various reasons for this, which I won't go into, but what would you like to see as a citable source for this?