[WikiEN-l] Defeat: Notability is Policy

[Charlotte Webb]

On 2/1/08, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion, yes - it would be nice to have a cite for everything.
>
> It's also a horrible mistake to, for example, run through WP articles
> and either delete everything that isn't cited, or all articles without
> RS, or both.

But people (for the sake of argument, let's call them deletionists)
can and do make that "horrible mistake", one page at a time.

The obvious solution would be to add sources to a redeemable page
before some nimrod deletes it, but often that would require telepathic
awareness of the next target.

—C.W.