On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
Is it perhaps time, that we started to demand that basic sourcing was a pre-requisite of creating an article on any living person?
This proposal aims (without causing any deletion spree of backlogs) to instigate the idea that basic sourcing is necessary for any BLP to remain on wikipedia. People are given time to source it (and can even do so retrospectively) - but we set time limits on unreferenced BLPs.
We've currently got 30,000 of these unreferenced things - that needs sorting (preferably by sourcing rather than deletion) - but stemming the tide is the first step.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Con...
I'll tell you why I like this proposal: it's very binary, and there's very little room for interpretation. If it's an article on a living person, and it has no sources, then it should be speedied. Very little wiggleroom there.
I'm totally pro.
--Oskar