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

[Alex]

Why 30 days? Why not 5 like the normal {{prod}} system?

Alex (Majorly)

On 18/07/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Please see:
> [[Wikipedia:Requests for verification]]
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypmy36
>
> A proposal designed as a process similar to {{prod}} to delete
> articles without sources if no sources are provided in 30 days.
>
> It reads:
>
> " It has been suggested that this article might not meet Wikipedias's
> core content policies Verifiability and/or No original research. If
> references are not cited within a month, the disputed information
> will be removed.
>
> If you can address this concern by sourcing please edit this page and
> do so. You may remove this message if you reference the article.
>
> The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for 30
> days. (This template was added: XXX XX 2007.)
>
> If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead,
> improve the article so that it is acceptable according to
> Verifiability and/or No original research."
>
> Some editors see this as necessary to improve Wikipedia as a whole
> and assert that this idea is supported by policy, and others ( me
> included) see this as a negative thing for the project with the
> potential of loss of articles that could be easily sourced.
>
> I would encourage your comments in that page's talk.
>
>
> -- Jossi
>
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