I appreciate being listed as an honorable exception, but I'm not an except. I see a lot of other people doing just the same as as I--about 3/4 of the articles I see on prod and put aside to be worked on later in the day, are in fact sourced by the timer I get there. sometimes, rather superficially, sometimes better than I could do. I think many of the people trying to deal with the deletions are doing as much as we can--but it is obviously 10 or 100 times faster to tag on the basis of impressions than to actually look for sources.
What we need to see is other people first trying to source, and tagging for deletion afterwards if needed. this gives both better articles to keep, and more secure deletions. The latest unhelpful variant of people not even looking is people looking only in Google, not google news or Books or Scholar. If we are to remove the worthless or the unverifiable, and there is quite a lot of both of them, the best way is for people listing for deletion to do as full and honest a job of trying to source as is reasonable , and say where they have looked, and let others who think it might be worthwhile carry ti further. The change that would make the biggest difference is that each person who looks at an article for any reason , such as fixing typos or adding categories or disam links, actually try to spot any serious problems, not just do the routine task they came for. There are too many BLPs that have been looked at twenty times, but none of them carefully. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Emily Monroe wrote: >> Can anybody explain what PWD is? >> > Surely. But in another thread, I hope. > > Charles > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l