David Goodman<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would support making it a requirement before taking
any article to
AfD on the basis of lack of references to first make a bona fide
appropriate search for them, and to say so--this is already
recommended at [[WP:BEFORE]]
That way, the people who want to remove presently unsourced articles
would improve the encyclopedia in two ways simultaneously first, by
getting unsourceable articles deleted, and second, by getting
sourceable ones sourced. They are equal priorities.
Indeed. Turning half of our Garbagemonkeys into [[WP:Sourcerors]] may
be one of the best ideas I've heard all day.
-Stevertigo