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.