Of course I wouldn't put them up for AfD. There is no reason to make
the previous text inaccessible--and conceivably some of it could be
used. I could do much more rewriting if people put fewer acceptable
(or at least fixable or mergeable) articles up for unwarranted AfDs,
or did not try to change WP:N policy to justify deleting still more.
Now, I came here to write, but I've ended up doing mainly rescuing.
It's hard to say which should have priority--making existing articles
better, or getting acceptable new articles. My choice was rescue
because fewer people were doing that.
A difficulty with the updated EB articles is that people did not
normally indicate just what part was from the EB, so it is hard to
tell from the face what part is unreliable. (It can of course be told
by looking at the first versions in the history, or by checking the
Wiksource link if present--or one of the other available online texts,
or guessed at by looking for opinionated prose. )
As for the British parliamentarian, I can't identify him.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Andrew Gray<andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
2009/8/19 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/8/19 <wjhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
Well get busy I still once-in-a-while encounter
articles whose only
source is EB1911. I would submit that if you actually put these up for
AfD you'd get a lot of backflack for SNOW. Sure the articles could be
fixed, but the previous point was that a single tertiary source isn't
sufficient for an article and I think it probably is.. depending.
I remember copyediting one article on a now-obscure 18th century
British parliamentarian. Basically I just rewrote for style. And,
y'know, I'm pretty sure it'd be a reasonable start on the article, and
certainly not a deletion candidate just for having 1911EB as its sole
source.
I've found that a lot of our material tagged as from EB1911 has now
pretty much vanished entirely under three or four years of editing -
it might be instructive to dig through them and see what needs
rewriting anyway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:1911
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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