On 12/1/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
The verifiability policy has never been a hardline policy, but a guideline and something to aim towards. When it was first adopted, nobody thought it meant that we should summarily delete the 80%+ of the encyclopedia that at the time was unsourced. Instead what it meant was that we should begin going through and adding sources to it.
What if a person picks a random article from the 80% of the encyclopedia that isn't sourced and says "I'm going to delete this unless someone else sources it"?