[WikiEN-l] Unsourced biographies

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 4/26/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.


Yes, first we need to make sure all false positives and negatives are dealt
with.
And before we go on a deletion rampage, we need to have a massive sourcing
effort to make sure it should be deleted.

> 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}}?


PROD is not for a 14 day period.

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