[WikiEN-l] editorial oversight, re: afd, fac, etc.

[Ken Arromdee]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> > It highlights a real problem with the policies.  If you let anyone delete
> > uncited material, and you even consider original research as a reason to
> > delete an article, you leave the way open for vandals to intentionally
> > challenge random claims and random articles just to cause trouble.
> > 
> > What we *should* do is require that you must sincerely consider uncited
> > material questionable before deleting it (or using it to nominate an article
> > for deletion).  (Of course, this won't prevent the vandal from lying and
> > trying to delete the article anyway, but then, that's true of any policy.)
> 
> Fortunately, articles without references will soon no longer go to AfD.
> 
> You may want to leave a comment at [[Wikipedia:Speedy deletion criterion
> for unsourced articles]].

That's not better, that's worse.

It's also irrelevant in most of the vandal cases because the articles targeted
by vandals in this way usually have at least one source somewhere, which
exempts it from that proposal.