On 4/27/07, Mark Wagner <carnildo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/26/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)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.
My survey of BLPs is only half-completed so far, but from what I've found:
*One article in seven is a biography of a living person, for
approximately a quarter-million of them.
*90% of these articles have neither footnotes nor references.
*About half have only links to official or fan websites.
*25% have nothing that could be considered a source under even the
most generous definition.
Obviously I have a rather biased sample, but the BLPs I've worked with have
largely turned out to be unattributed copyvios (as in, not even a link to
them) from official biographies or press releases published online. Of
course, determining how many of our BLPs are actually copyvios is a
different question altogether...
Johnleemk