[WikiEN-l] Proposal: improving quality on enwiki

[Ken Arromdee]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Kelly Martin wrote:
> * Any article which remains unsourced for one month will be deleted.
> A bot will detect unsourced articles and notify the responsible SWG of
> the article and the need to source it.

The problem with this is the same as always.  While sourcing everything is an
ideal, articles generally don't get created fully sourced, let alone with
every sentence sourced, and Wikipedia is very much a work in progress and
will remain so.  Removing all unsourced articles will remove a vast amount
of useful information, most of which is accurate, and when it is inaccurate
is generally no more so than a typical non-Wikipedia reference anyway.