Sure, that will work for knowledgeable people like you and me. But WP contributors do not all have the determination to persist over resistance or difficulty. This shouldn't be an obstacle course. We should be helping the newby and the clueless and the inept, the people who don't know they need to source, the people who don;t know how to source, and the people without the ability to source in a particular case. That is, if we want to actually join in helping build, not destroy, an encyclopedia.
There is only one really good response to an unreferenced article that is not obviously hopeless--and that is to help look for references for it. Everyone, not just the author, but the patroller, the nominator for deletion, the person !voting at Afd, the admin deleting a CSD or a prod, all individually share that responsibility.
At least for what I can do best, when I see someone asserted to be a notable author without any evidence, I look. Depending on what I find, I act to keep or delete. I follow the evidence: I've done 2 searches for things at AfD in the last 2 days, where people were !voting both ways without any basis but their intuition--in each case I looked properly, found nothing really adequate, laid out what I did find, and said delete or weak delete. Only when I find enough for a keep, do I say keep.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/03/2008, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Ian Woollard wrote:
If they somehow magically pass AFD without deletion and without extra references, I can and *will* blank these articles without breaking *any* rules.
Only if WP:POINT isn't considered a rule.
Deleting unreferenced material isn't disrupting the wikipedia. They can always reinsert it again if they can be bothered to reference it. And I wouldn't be doing it to disrupt, nor to make a point, either.
-- -Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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