[WikiEN-l] deleting unsourced articles ..... gradually

[Ray Saintonge]

Phil Sandifer wrote:

>On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:58 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
>  
>
>>This proposal didn't suggest deleting something because it was  
>>foreign. If
>>it's a legitimate Andorran political party, there will be secondary  
>>sources
>>although they are in French. English sources are preferred but  
>>French or
>>Peruvian ones are acceptable if those are the only ones the editor  
>>working
>>on it can find or understand.
>>    
>>
>You miss the point - it's not that these articles can't get sources.  
>It's that they don't have sources now and have a very small pool of  
>editors working on them who would be overwhelmed, if not driven off  
>entirely, by the demand to source all of the articles or see them  
>deleted.
>
The demand is not simply to source all those articles, but to do so in a 
very short time.

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