[WikiEN-l] List of banned books

[David Gerard]

On 03/10/06, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Kim van der Linde <kim at kimvdlinde.com> wrote:
> > MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

> > > Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce?
> > > Have them remove any uncited crap.
> > > If ALA 2000 is a specific list with set entries, remove anything that
> > > shouldn't be there.
> > > Be bold!

> > That would amount to deleting around 90% of the article as unsourced........

> That's what I did to get [[List of unusual personal names]] under
> control.  Since then, I've been reverting any addition that doesn't
> cite sources showing that (1) there exists a person with this name,
> and (2) the name is considered unusual.


It's the sort of thing they have to do to keep [[Films considered the
worst ever]] under control. It's clearly a useful article subject, but
you need some real hardarses on hand to keep it usably referenced.
[[List of longest novels]] was started with a referencing requirement.


- d.