On 12/13/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/13/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Even if you're writing an article from the top of your head, it's obviously something you know a lot about, and you'd have a much easier time finding a reference than some random edit patroller. If nothing else it's common courtesy to save the rest of us time researching your article.
Absolutely. Starting an unreferenced article is discourteous
However, that is not an argument for deletion of unreferenced articles.
I think it is a good part of the argument. It's the part that says you don't have a *right* to have your articles kept if they are unreferenced.
The other half of the argument is which would be better for Wikipedia. Would deletion of unreferenced articles cause enough people to start referencing things that it'd make up for those articles which were deleted? Would the time saved in not having to argue with trolls make up for the time spent asking an admin to undelete something? We can argue over these points forever, or we could try it and see. I think there's a good chance that the positives would outweigh the negatives. No solution is perfect, of course.
Anthony