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I can't read Dutch, and the policies on the Dutch Wikipedia may well vary. However, I would ask you to please review our deletion policy for the English Wikipedia. It says, "Reasons for deletion include, but are not limited to ... Articles that cannot possibly be attributed to reliable sources" (emphasis added). This policy statement goes on to say: "If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing, rather than deletion." It therefore seems logical that an editor nominating an article for deletion first ought to make a good faith effort to verify that the article "cannot possibly" be referenced properly. This is the purpose of the section of the Articles for Deletion procedure found at WP:BEFORE. If this notability check is not done, then articles on notable topics will inevitably be deleted, to the detriment of the encyclopedia. The effort devoted to deleting articles on possibly notable topics ought instead, in my opinion, be devoted to checking for notability and adding a couple of references to the article when notability is found. This is much more friendly to new users who contribute the majority of our new content, and leads to an improved encyclopedia and more cordial relationships among editors. I hope that you will consider this input to be positive, because that is my intention here.