[WikiEN-l] deleting unsourced articles ..... gradually
Thomas Dalton
thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 13:49:37 UTC 2007
If people don't like the idea of deleting unsourced articles, how
about blanking them?
More precisely, if an article isn't sourced 7 days after being tagged,
replace the article with a template saying "This article has been
removed due to lack of sources. You can still view the article by
clicking 'History'. Please feel free to recreate this article by
editing the previous version and adding sources."
That way, we're still preventing the public from unknowingly reading
unreliable articles (I would like to include a warning in the
template, but I couldn't think of a wording that didn't apply to all
Wikipedia articles - none of our articles should be relied upon for
anything, really), but we aren't getting rid of anyone's work, and
it's much easier to add sources to the article after the 7 days is up
than it would be if you had to get it undeleted first.
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