On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, David Goodman wrote:
It is not now and it has never been
acceptable to delete articles that have no references just because
they have no references, nor to nominate articles for deletion on that
ground alone. You need to know that it is not verifiable. There are
only two ways you can say that: first, you made a good faith effort
appropriate to the article and failed. The other if it is obvious from
similar cases that the material is totally unverifiable.
There's a loophole here: Just delete paragraphs from the article on the
grounds of having no references. Once the article's almost empty, then
nominate it for deletion.