[WikiEN-l] Removing unsourced information

[Charles Matthews]

quiddity wrote:
> What to do about someone who has "lost the plot"?
> For example, this editor seems to be going from article to article,
> deleting every prose paragraph that doesn't have a ref tag (usually
> everything except the intro sentence).
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20100125214401&target=JBsupreme
> Some of the content being removed is obviously not good (selfpromoting
> peacockery etc), but much is perfectly fine, and this seems to be one
> of the worst (most indiscriminate) ways to handle the hypothetical
> problem.
>   
Suggest that one can drive-by even faster in adding {{fact}}? I think 
this is the first step, the suggestion that identifying unsourced facts 
is a way of achieving a similar end, and that we can all applaud it when 
properly done.

Charles