[WikiEN-l] Deletion of unreferenced living person biographies

[David Gerard]

2009/9/8 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>:

> Working with some other editors, I started [1] to go through older unsourced living people biographies (BLPs) and either add references or propose for deletion under the criteria for speedy deletion (CSD), the proposed deletion process (PROD) or the Articles for Deletion process (AfD). Attack pages and pages on people which don't assert notability can be speedy deleted under CSD and PROD can be used for the others if they haven't been PRODed/AfDed before. However, many editors think that neutral unreferenced articles shouldn't be PRODed or AFDed unless the proposer has first made an effort to find sources themselves (see guideline [[WP:BEFORE]]). In my experience being an unreferenced BLPs is not enough to persuade editors that it should be deleted - despite being a clear breach of the BLP policy and hence grounds for deletion; it's more likely to succeed if you can show that it's non-notable.


Gut it of all unreferenced material, per WP:BLP. Leave it a day. PROD
it. See if it survives.


- d.