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

[David Gerard]

On 31/03/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:58 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

> > This proposal didn't suggest deleting something because it was
> > foreign. If
> > it's a legitimate Andorran political party, there will be secondary
> > sources
> > although they are in French. English sources are preferred but
> > French or
> > Peruvian ones are acceptable if those are the only ones the editor
> > working
> > on it can find or understand.

> You miss the point - it's not that these articles can't get sources.
> It's that they don't have sources now and have a very small pool of
> editors working on them who would be overwhelmed, if not driven off
> entirely, by the demand to source all of the articles or see them
> deleted.


Indeed. Should this blithering idiocy go ahead, please at least make
sure there's a known-good dump of en:wp available first.


- d.