In the opinion of many New Page Patrol editors, articles with absolutely no sources (or only links to unreliable ones like the subject's own MySpace page, their IMDb biography, and PageRank results for their website) raises a flag that none may exist.
As a litmus test of Attribution for a biographical article, there should be enough reliable sources publications about the subject that the first paragraph can answer the questions, "When and where was the subject born?" with a properly referenced citation ... for example, consider the following:
John Quincy Public (1963-11-23 to 2001-09-11) was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan.[1] He is notable for coincidentally having been born on the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination, surviving the same accident that killed both of his parents on the day of the first moon landing, and having died of "complications from an infected hangnail" on the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks.[1]
References
- ^ a b Lane, Lois (April 1, 2004). "The Coincidental Life and Death of John Q. Public". Daily Planet. p. 13. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
That may be a fictional example (Lois Lane of the Daily Planet gives it away), but the information is presented in such a way that it does not raise any flags, so most editors who encountered it while performing New Pages Patrol or Counter Vandalism Unit reviews would simply MOVE ON and not bother to tag it for speedy deletion.
OTOH, that very same paragraph without the verisimilitude of the citations (and the wikilinks to existing articles) would probably get tagged and deleted within an hour ... this is why you should create a subpage (sandbox) to work on your article and gather WP:RS citations before you attempt to publish it on Wikipedia.
Just in case your article has already been deleted, please read What to do after your speedy delete has been restored to better understand what's probably going to happen if you disagree and appeal the deletion.
Remember that there are at least two other editors who felt that the subject lacked sufficient Attribution to Verify the accuracy of the facts in the article, i.e, "has been the subject of multiple non-trivial reliable source publications" ... any editor may tag an article for speedy deletion, but only Administrators have the authority of the Senior Partners to actually delete and restore articles, so one editor "flagged and tagged" it, and Some Other Editor concurred with the decision and "fragged" it.
Happy Editing! —72.75.70.207 (talk · contribs) 07:52, 22 July 2007 (UTC)