[WikiEN-l] Deletion of unreferenced living person biographies

[David Goodman]

I would support making it a requirement before taking any article to
AfD on the basis of lack of references to first make a bona fide
appropriate search for them, and to say so--this is already
recommended at [[WP:BEFORE]]
That way, the people who want to remove presently unsourced articles
would improve  the encyclopedia in two ways simultaneously first, by
getting unsourceable articles deleted, and second, by getting
sourceable ones sourced. They are equal priorities.


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:55 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew Turvey<andrewrturvey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Clearly whether we allow "deletion on sight" or require proposers to improve articles first makes a big difference to whether this backlog will ever be cleared.
>
> A couple ideas:
>
> 1) "Delete on sight" is unwiki, and violates several of our core
> policies that supercede BLP including NPOV and CIVIL and their
> subordinates. "Speedy" concepts also tend to promote uncivil behavior,
> such that people occasionally will do things like not read what they
> want to delete ([[WP:MFD/SV/ONS]]), and try to close ongoing MFD's
> ([[WP:DRV/SV/ONS]]) and even ANI's ([[WP:RFAR/DPP]]).
>
> 2) As far as getting backlogs cleared up, we have a large number of
> people coming through the penal system (misnamed "Arbitration," for
> some reason) who may choose to do work as part of the agreeable
> remedy. In fact, if Arbcom starts shaping up in accord with the
> dynamics of creativity and invention, such as in some imaginary
> scenario wherein they were free to interact and act autonomously, then
> it will be fairly easy for the community, through them, to get people
> to work on the menial tasks that others like myself just will not do.
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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