[WikiEN-l] Unsourced biographies

Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen at shaw.ca
Thu Apr 26 07:30:11 UTC 2007


Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
> I started a discussion at [[WT:BLP]] on the proposal that we implement
> a variant of proposed deletion as follows:
> 
> 	It is proposed that this article be deleted as a biography of
> 	a living individual which does not cite its references or
> 	sources.

Based on what I saw when going through some of that
{{unreferenced}}-containing BLP list, the rate of false positives could
be in the range of 90% or so. Having deletion be the default result of
such a tag could result in losing a lot of useful stuff.

> The idea would be to give a bureaucracy-free route to removing
> *unsourced* biographies.  The unsourced condition may be the result of
> removal of questionable sources for negative statements, that should
> not make a difference.

Why not use {{prod}}?



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