[WikiEN-l] Handling unreferenced but likely-valid material

Wed Nov 29 23:19:54 UTC 2006

On 11/30/06, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:
> e) Once tagged, there should be no big rush about deleting the
> material, but it should not remain indefinitely, either. How long?
> Assuming that there's no specific reason to doubt the material,
> months and months.
>
> The _only_ objections to this I can think of is that that the tags
> are ugly--which is true but susceptible to a technical fix--or that
> we are not serious about verifiability and don't truly want to
> restrict Wikipedia content to things that are supported by published
> material.

I don't think deleting accurate, high-quality, unreferenced material
is in Wikipedia's best interests. Asking for a source, yes. Adding
sources, yes. But *deleting* good material? No.

Steve