On 12/13/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 12/13/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
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.
That's an odd way of putting it. No editor has rights beyond copyright and the GFDL. The question is whether it's appropriate to delete articles solely because the deleting administrator cannot be bothered to expand them and, for reasons that escape me, cannot leave expansion to someone else.
The other half of the argument is which would be better for Wikipedia.
I think we can take it as read that it isn't better for Wikipedia to delete articles without good reason. A wiki is always a work in progress, and most articles on Wikipedia are unreferenced. This doesn't make them useless and certainly doesn't mean that administrators should delete them without ever making any attempt to expand them and without ever discussing their deletion on AfD.