[WikiEN-l] deleting unsourced articles ..... gradually

[The Cunctator]

On 3/31/07, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I like Jimbo's notion of a prod system that says "this is crap, if it is
> still crap in 7 days I will delete it"
>
> I wonder if we could start this by simply saying "Any article that
> remains unsourced after being marked as such for 7 days is deleted". It
> sounds draconian, but we now do it for images, why not articles? No, it
> will not solve all out problems, but it would be a workable step towards
> saying that it may be better to have no article for the moment than a
> crap one.
>
7 days is draconian, but hey, I figured Wikipedia would start to be a
mostly unfriendly project for contributors in 7 years from its
conception, so we're right on schedule.

If we are to have such a policy, 6 months seems like a reasonable time to me.

If we are to have such a policy, we should also grandfather in articles.

Also, if we were to have some kind of policy like this, the sourcing
requirements should be light. In other words, it should not be the
case that someone can litter an article with [needs attribution] and
then delete it the next week.

If we are to have some sort of policy, these certainly should be
totally undeletable by just about anyone (not just admins) without any
need for review.