[WikiEN-l] Unsourced biographies

[Puppy]

IMHO, delete as "Unsourced attack article" and have done.
-kc-

Andrew Gray wrote:
> So, I've been going through the endless barrel of fun that is
> [[Category:Rapists]], slapping prod tags on the people of no
> encyclopedic significance ("X priest got two years in jail for groping
> some choirboys") and, in a couple of cases, encountering entirely
> unsourced articles. Perhaps the most obvious of these was:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sedley_Alley&oldid=64313689
>
> What ought we to do with them? I mean, policy is aggressively attack
> anything unsourced that would be defamation if it was false; where
> there were other avenues of notability, I've done that.
>
> But in this case, when we remove all forms of the negative material, we get
>
>   
>> Sedley Alley (August 16, 1955 – June 28, 2006) was married to a military person
>>     
>
> ...which is in and of itself a candidate for speedy deletion, though I
> suspect doing that would get me brickbatted for nefarious deletionism.
>
> What I've done in the three or four cases where I ran across this was
> put a prod tag on, saying that we simply cannot have any article of
> this form without sources. Better, I feel, to have it deleted than to
> have a dodgy article left up (even if the subject's dead, it's still
> ethically iffy) I've been told this is "impatience"; I'm jumping past
> normal cleanup procedures and slapping a "fix in X days or else"
> warning on.
>
> Thoughts? I'm really not convinced we have another way to deal with
> things like this that actually works...
>
>