[WikiEN-l] Anonymous page creation will be reenabled on English Wikipedia.

Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 15:13:12 UTC 2007


On 10/29/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No sources, half the time ("half" being probably an underestimation) on
> > very, very borderline subjects that -just- duck speedy to start with,
> > usually most of what's there is wrong (because it's pulled from memory,
> > not sources), etc.
>
> Is it your position that having no sources should constitute a criterion for
> speedy deletion?
>
> Johnleemk

Well, in all fairness, this would be more concrete and objective
criterion than the ones we've got. I mean right now I go could write a
stub that does cite three or four sources and undoubtedly some
chowderhead will want it speedy deleted, arguing that said article
does not adequately assert "notability or significance", whatever that
means.

—C.W.



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