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

[David Gerard]

On 31/03/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


Probably not on living bios, but if those who wish to raze much of
Wikipedia to the ground in order to save it have their way, this would
be better than utter destruction.


- d.