On Mar 31, 2007, at 12:41 PM, doc wrote:
And it would take you under a min to find a
second citation for
that..... so it is a poor example.
But what would a second citation add to that article? Or, more to the
point, how is the lack of a second citation something so bad that the
article should be deleted unless it gets one?
Yes, with any policy change, someone is going to
be able to dig out
the
odd example where it would not really help. If we don't act because of
marginal damage, then we will never change anything. When we have 1.5
million articles we need to think bigger than that - and consider net
impact on the project, not one or two cases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorran_Democratic_Centre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b-5 (Only source is the
primary source)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_University_Press
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family_Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ferguson_%28organist%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Institute_for_the_Certification_of_Computing_Professionals
Would you like me to find more? Now, mind you, I don't know for 100%
certain that, for instance, the Focus on the Family Institute is
notable. But all of these articles are short, descriptive articles
that rely entirely on a primary source.
I also am pretty certain that instead of gutting bad articles what
would happen here is that articles on politicians in non-English
speaking countries would get gutted. We would lose our coverage on
the non-English speaking world rapidly. For instance, that first link
- the Andorran Democratic Centre? None of our articles on Andorran
political parties would survive this proposal. Neither would our
Peruvian politicians.
This proposal didn't suggest deleting something because it was foreign. If
it's a legitimate Andorran political party, there will be secondary sources
although they are in French. English sources are preferred but French or
Peruvian ones are acceptable if those are the only ones the editor working
on it can find or understand.
Mgm