[WikiEN-l] 17,268 badly referenced living biographies

[Bryan Derksen]

Ken Arromdee wrote:
> I think the problem is that people want to remove it for some reason that
> has nothing to do with lack of sources.  The sources are just an excuse.
> So when a source finally turns up, they have to grasp at straws for a
> reason to discount it.

I've seen this plenty of times myself. An article that someone
disapproves of survives AfD so they launch a "death by a thousand cuts"
campaign instead. Once it gets down small enough a merge suggestion
often ensues, which subsequently allows for even more information to be
pared away. The [[Friedman (unit)]] article is currently in that stage,
though the thousand cuts haven't been primarily reference-related in
this case.

It's incredibly frustrating to see these good-intentioned guidelines and
policies being perverted into a weapon with which to remove otherwise
reasonable content.

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