RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Category:Bullshit (May 2018)

Category:Bullshit | Result: Delete

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1. This category falls squarely as useless as Category:Insufferable assholes (see AfD) and Category:Batshit crazy (see AfD), but it's a little more elaborate, being prettier and has sub-categories nested in there (though Category:Bullshit-related stubs has only two members, and the pretty svg isn't even used in many articles unlike the others, which are part of the nav templates). Everything is a messy conglomeration of tangentially related topics (related only because they're missional basically). We should delete this one for consistency sake. So we should delete this and the related subcategories. We've seen a previous attempt here, but I think we now have precedent, and this can be safely deleted. If this passes through, we should delete this and Category:Bullshit-related stubs. --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 02:42, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
2. Another one of the overgeneralized categories here that should be done away with. Cosmikdebris (talk) 02:51, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
3. Though this category might have at one time been useful as a meta-category for some of the more thoroughly discredited ideas documented on this site (Libertarianism, Communism, New age woo, etc), but in it's current overused state I would strongly recommend it be deleted, and that future editors who wish to use it as a meta-category rebuild it completely from scratch. ☭Comrade GC☭^{Ministry of Praise} 03:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   its current overused state, sir. --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 20:21, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

4. Delete. Generally, the category contents do not correspond to the definition of the word. Bongolian (talk) 07:31, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   I don't think we have a lot of articles on bovine fecal matter on this wiki, but I don't know. --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 20:18, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

5. Yeah. Now that Batshit crazy and Insufferable assholes are no longer with us, I can't justify keeping this category. Spud (talk) 09:04, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Keep

1. You crass liberals just can't erase your past like that, unfortunately. Categorizing anything you disagree with as "bull****," that is. --William Grimes (talk) 14:12, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   So EiK, your justification for keeping this category is that it is useless, but you think it makes "Liberals" look bad. Do you have a real reason to vote keep, rather than using this as an excuse to hurl insults at strawmen? ☭Comrade GC☭^{Ministry of Praise} 14:26, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   they all sound the same --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 20:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   I find it amusing that my raising a key flaw in your arguments appears to constitute "trolling." Nonetheless, mere dismissal of arguments using such a profanity is utterly childish and anti-intellectual. As someone who received an MDiv from Bob Jones University, I think higher standards than that should be present. --William Grimes (talk) 22:23, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   Did you just boast about having a degree from a Diploma mill??!?!?!? ☭Comrade GC☭^{Ministry of Praise} 22:39, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

   Seriously though, do you actually want it kept? Because your argument amounts to "it was bad when you first did it, but no way can you undo that!" To which I say, "Why not?" —Kazitor, ^pending 01:09, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

   Why are you even here? Just to troll? And you don't think that there's a reason that why RationalWiki calls things bullshit? I mean, the RationalWiki mission is pretty much to call out bullshit. So this category is unnecessary. Also, what GrammarCommie said. You're seriously going to dismiss our arguments because you got a diploma from here? If you're going to brag, at least talk about a degree from a real educational school, not a fundie school. TheEOE (talk) 01:48, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

   You guys, stop feeding this person. I'm confident this person's little vindictive "reasoning" won't win any voters over. --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 06:30, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Goat

1. Not sure how to vote on this one. Those other two cats were mostly unnecessary ad hominems, but this could very vaguely be useful for separating "debunking" and "background info". I feel swayed towards deletion though; maybe have a category for background information instead? —Kazitor, ^pending 01:10, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

   I think having a category that covers a vast portion of our wiki isn't a very useful category, particularly if the category doesn't lend to useful subcategories or the elements in the categories barely relate to one another. I think it defeats the purpose of a category, looking up related articles and whatnot. --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 06:34, 13 May 2018 (UTC)