[WikiEN-l] Elimination of unreferenced articles drive?

[Ray Saintonge]

Matthew Brown wrote:

>On 6/16/07, Jossi Fresco <jossifresco at mac.com> wrote:
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>>A Wikiproject to "eliminate unreferenced articles"?
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Unreferenced_articles
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>>This seems a bit excessive.
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>Well, it depends how that elimination is being done - by adding
>references is quite OK, for instance.  By nominating for deletion
>things that no references can be found for after an exhausting search
>is also OK in my book.
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Experience shows that the "exhausting search" is not always there.  
Sometimes there is no search before nomination; perhaps a nomination 
should show evidence that some searchging has happened.

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