[WikiEN-l] Policies, notability et al, was Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[David Gerard]

2009/8/19  <wjhonson at aol.com>:

> Well get busy I still once-in-a-while encounter articles whose only
> source is EB1911.  I would submit that if you actually put these up for
> AfD you'd get a lot of backflack for SNOW.  Sure the articles could be
> fixed, but the previous point was that a single tertiary source isn't
> sufficient for an article and I think it probably is.. depending.


I remember copyediting one article on a now-obscure 18th century
British parliamentarian. Basically I just rewrote for style. And,
y'know, I'm pretty sure it'd be a reasonable start on the article, and
certainly not a deletion candidate just for having 1911EB as its sole
source.


- d.