Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Viggo Mortensen

~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Viggo Mortensen
All quotes are unsourced even though Wikipedia has an article. If his quotes can be well sourced, I will be willing to withdraw this vote. — Jusjih 11:17, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 12:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't think that lack of sources is sufficient grounds for deletion. Mortensen is highly notable.--Poetlister 12:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep with Poetlister here - he is notable -- Herby talk thyme 12:29, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep, now that Phaedriel has added sources to two quotes. In the past, we typically haven't nominated articles that have only unsourced quotes if the subject was clearly notable and the potential for sourced quotes was high (whether or not the ones included were likely sourceable). But with the growing belief in the Wikimedia world that "fair use" should be used only in strictly limited circumstances, which is causing many vocal Wikimedians (including some existing and future Board members) to call for spinning off or closing down Wikiquotes, which require "fair use" for their primary material, it may not be unreasonable to start pushing for faster action by nominating for deletion articles whose sole problem is the absence of sources. But if we do, we should be prepared for a lot more VfD activity and its consequences. Of course, the best way to handle these situations is Phaedriel's — find some sources for existing quotes (or some sources quotes worth adding), and perhaps remove quotes that seem hard to source. Our biggest challenge is not getting people to contribute quotes, but to source them. I think we have a lot of undocumented community wisdom on how to do this (Google Book Search, borrow a book from the library, review DVDs, etc.), so one way we might promote this work is to make a concise, specific list at Sourcing. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:34, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep with some crappy reference to Lord of the Rings Will {{sup|{talk)}} 14:59, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I am withdrawing this vote now.--Jusjih 16:16, 20 July 2007 (UTC)