[WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM, doc <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Is it perhaps time, that we started to demand that basic sourcing was a
> pre-requisite of creating an article on any living person?
>
> This proposal aims (without causing any deletion spree of backlogs) to
> instigate the idea that basic sourcing is necessary for any BLP to
> remain on wikipedia. People are given time to source it (and can even do
> so retrospectively) - but we set time limits on unreferenced BLPs.
>
> We've currently got 30,000 of these unreferenced things - that needs
> sorting (preferably by sourcing rather than deletion) - but stemming the
> tide is the first step.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Concrete_proposal

I'll tell you why I like this proposal: it's very binary, and there's
very little room for interpretation. If it's an article on a living
person, and it has no sources, then it should be speedied. Very little
wiggleroom there.

I'm totally pro.

--Oskar