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

[The Cunctator]

On 3/31/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> doc wrote:
> > The fact is, with regard to biographies at very least, we are now tfar
> > too high profile for the eventualism that says we must keep awful, pov,
> > unsourced stuff, because in theory we could fix most of it. That's now
> > simply unacceptable.
>
> And there is a different form of eventualism which works quite well.
> It's ok to delete a horribly crappy unsourced article, OR ANY PART of
> such an article, because EVENTUALLY we will be able to add more
> information, with sources, in the right way.
>
> For a small wikipedia it can be ok to say: we are desperate for
> volunteers, we are desperate for growth, and so it is best to put up
> with a fair amount of unsourced stuff that is mostly right, just to
> build up a base of work for the future.
>
> In en.wikipedia, we have a base of work for the future.  And therefore
> it is natural and proper that we should over time get more and more and
> more serious about quality.

Any proper measure of quality for Wikipedia also includes comprehensiveness.