On 3/29/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)waterwiki.info> wrote:
If the information does not have a specific source
attached to it such as a page in a book or the equivalent, it is unsourced. You are not
obligated to read whole books when no page is given. The priority needs to go to 4) Remove
all unsourced harmful or extremely dubious sounding material
from biographies, and unsourced harmful material
from other articles and probably extends to removing such material when that is all that
is in the article, even if it is sourced.
The problem with living bios goes
beyond unsourced material.
Everything in a bio could be sourced and it might still be an unfair
portrait of the person. Then there's the problem of Wikpedia editors
hunting down every tiny bit of published material from decades ago,
thereby reviving stories that were long dead, or posting something
that was published only in a local newspaper, thereby turning it into
an international story.
But if you try to remove material like that from a bio, or delete a
bio entirely because it's inherently unfair, a great hue and cry goes
up about censorship, and a revert war begins.
Sarah