On 4/27/07, Mark Wagner carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/26/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@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