On 18/07/07, White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
put up or shut up is bureaucracy which is a violation of [[WP:NOT]]. Articles should never EVER be tagged for deletion for the sake of a process.
No, this is for the sake of the encyclopedia. You've heard of it, right? This project that some people work on between arguing on wikien-l?
If an article has trivial flaws (such as lack of sources), correcting is much easier, faster, and productive than involving any kind of process.
Well, if you can tell me how I can "easily and quickly" source an article which appears likely to rely on Australian newspaper articles from the 1980s, then sure.
Not everything is on the internet. Not everything is clear-cut and comprehensible. Not everything can be resolved by a nonspecialist. Saying "if you don't find sources yourself you shouldn't ask for them" is just symptomatic of this obsession we have with google as the source to all our dilemmas.
Any situation where the sourcing is so obvious as to be "trivial" to solve, it's not going to be appropriate to mark it for deletion. This is patently obvious. It's the more dubious cases that are the problem - and they do exist.