[WikiEN-l] Proposed {{prod}} for articles with no sources

[David Gerard]

On 18/07/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, John Lee wrote:

> > As an aside, your sarcastic comparisons may be misplaced considering that if
> > you dispute the removal of a spoiler warning, you can add it back, while
> > undoing deletions (without causing a wheel war/desysopings) is a
> > significantly harder and lengthier process.

> Undoing the deletion of spoiler warnings in a way which actually looks at
> each one individually to see where it should be placed is much harder than
> deleting them.  For one thing, you can find all links to the spoiler warning
> template to delete them, with nothing comparable when adding them.  For
> another, you don't need to read the article to delete them, but you do need
> to read the article to add them.


So far you've argued for spoilers in the MFD, when the MFD was turned
into an RFC, on the talk page of the guideline, here and in a rejected
arbitration request, without drumming up much in the way of support. I
put it to you that your views on spoilers might conceivably be
completely at odds with the pulse of Wikipedia.


- d.