RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Category:Buried turds

Category:Buried turds | Result: Is now itself buried[edit]

Pointless category. We can mark shitty essays with {{drive-by}} or {{essaydispute}}, and if an essay is so beyond the pale that those templates would be insufficient then we shouldn't be afraid to delete them. (Don't give me "but the old guard would never delete essays", when judging by my recent cleanup they were much more willing to delete bad essays than we are.) Hell, look at the few pages that are in the category: two of them are talk pages for essays that were already deleted, while the other is one the author put on their own essay. Category:Talk pages for deleted essays is also in this category, which this is kind of redundant to. In general, the procedure of hiding an essay's content in the edit history as this category suggests isn't really much different than deletion save for the fact that it doesn't really solve any problems, and thus we should be able to move past this. Plutocow (talk) 03:27, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
There's alot of stuff the old guard wouldn't do, because most of them were either shitty centrists or edgy liberals that enjoyed having trolls, fundies and cranks around to "toy with them" in the same way Dawkins speaks about women. Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 12:27, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
This one doesn't make any sense...Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 12:26, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Carthage (talk) 16:40, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah no. A somebody. (talk) 17:19, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
I'm fine with getting rid of this one. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 19:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
The purpose of this category existing has long passed. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 15:57, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

If nothing else, this is useful for flagging essays of… questionable quality that need a serious examination of whether or not they're worth keeping (and in some cases, whether or not the authors should be brought to ATIM or the chicken coop; the "Ambition of Truth" horror show quickly comes to mind). Luigifan18 (talk) 16:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
We already have pages for that: Template:Essaydispute, Category:Drive-by essays, RationalWiki:Articles for deletion. All this category does is try to find a convoluted way to keep essays which by all means should be deleted, which is something we've moved passed as a community. Plutocow (talk) 16:23, 22 September 2024 (UTC)