Forum:SH Archive/Sourceless articles

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I've been trying to go through Category:Sourceless, but doing so has raised a few questions about the current article deletion system: if, after investigating the article (via Google, CUSWE, Star Wars RPG Index, etc) I am unable to find sources, what should be done? I know we aren't supposed to overuse speedy, but I don't want to clog up VFD with a whole slew of articles. I was chatting with Darth Culator, and he agrees that we should consider some way of simplifying the current process for really minor articles. One idea that we came up with was to implement a sort of dynamic VFD system, similar to the current dynamic VIP process: if an article is determined sourceless, a tag (perhaps delete-srcs or something along those lines) could be placed on it and a note left on the author's talk page. The listing would be added automatically to a section of the VFD page (or perhaps a new one) where it stay for a certain amount of time (several weeks, perhaps) before being deleted. If any controversy came up, the listing could be either changed to a regular VFD or the discussion could take place on the relevant talk page. I know Sikon has some sort of tagging system in place, but that doesn't seem to work on articles already in the Sourceless category (I may be wrong, I'm not sure how that system works). Thoughts? RMF 22:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)