On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Todd Allen wrote:
Getting a properly reffed article deleted is quite a trick.
It's certainly a trick, but it's not a trick in the sense of being impossible to do. Surely you've heard of the episodes and characters deletion?
I don't recall many of these being deleted, though a lot were merged.
That's quibbling over terminology. A "merge" which deletes all the info in the article is in practice a deletion.
I also didn't see many properly referenced articles in that, most of those articles were referenced mainly or solely to primary sources.
Works are acceptable as sources for themselves.