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Indy Rahmawati[edit]

BLPProd asks for at least one reliable source. Blogspot is not reliable. SL93 (talk) 12:56, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SL93, This is the first two sentences of WP:BLPPROD (bolding and links as in the original):

Unsourced biographies of living people (BLPs) are eligible for a special proposed deletion process, BLPPROD. To be eligible for a BLPPROD tag, the entry must be a biography of a living person and contain no sources in any form (as references, external links, etc., reliable or otherwise) supporting any statements made about the person in the biography. Unlike standard proposed deletion, the BLP deletion template may be removed only after the biography contains a reliable source that supports at least one statement made about the person in the article.

A single source in any form, any reliability is enough to disqualify an article from being eligible for BLPPROD. The blogspot source is enough to make it ineligible. The reliable source is required to remove a BLPPROD that was entirely unsourced when the BLPPROD was added. ~ GB fan 17:11, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's odd. The whole purpose of the template creation stemmed from discussions about making sure that BLPs were reliably sourced. SL93 (talk) 21:24, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SL93, I don't disagree, it is odd. That is the way the policy is written. There have been numerous discussions over the years about this and there has never been a consensus to change it to reliable in both cases. ~ GB fan 23:14, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]