[WikiEN-l] Thoughts on naming people - article content, this time.

[geni]

On 6/1/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> These lists, whatever they are about, are a sourcing nightmare. About
> a month ago we had a go-'round about a bunch of "List of [type of
> work] that break the fourth wall" articles -- that is,
> plays/films/etc. where one of the characters addresses the audience
> directly. These lists are *huge*-- because in our irony-addicted age,
> it's something that is done as a matter of course. Not surprisingly,
> the attempt to delete them failed, partly because of people trying to
> protect their work, partly because of the "seems useful" vote (which
> I'm beginning to think we should deprecate in a big way), and partly
> because the lists were serving as a cruft attractor to keep the stuff
> out of the main article. But of course, not a single entry of the
> hundreds was cited. And it's a problem because a real theater
> professional might have considered a lot of them as not true cases.

Deleting every unsourced entry in [[List of banned books]] worked quite well.