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RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Category:Woo-meisters
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Category:Woo-meisters | Result: All woo[edit]
This article has been requested to be deleted before. See here for that discussion.
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- Another category that suffers from being poorly defined similarly to Enablers before it. "Woo-meisters are those who try to separate desperate people from their money by peddling false hope." So basically Category:Scams "The term can also apply to individuals who ascribe to multiple types of woo." So basically Category:Crank magnetism. The fact that there are two separate definitions for the same category is never a good sign, and this feels like another one that is just mindlessly slapped on the pages of people we don't like. Plutocow (talk) 09:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Carthage (talk) 09:21, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah, it's redundant. We have Category:Shysters dedicated to charlatans, and Category:Pseudoscience promoters for those who spread a lot of woo. Those are parent categories of Category:Woo-meisters, and together they cover all legit uses of it. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 12:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- This category seems like an artifact of the early RationalWiki snark pattern, and as noted above, is redundant and poorly defined. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 22:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- I agree with the above points.
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dictatormoderator 20:12, 5 January 2025 (UTC) - Delete - agree with all of the above EditorialMaster (talk) 03:01, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
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- Before you delete this category, please let me remove all pages from it first. A somebody. (talk) 03:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- You do know we could do it automatically with User:Inferno Bot, but whatever. Plutocow (talk) 04:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- @A somebody., I've asked Techpriest to run it, so you don't need to manually clear the rest of the category out. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 17:33, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- After a day, I decided to wait no more and set up User:GoryCatizer Bot and run it myself. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 21:21, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- @A somebody., I've asked Techpriest to run it, so you don't need to manually clear the rest of the category out. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 17:33, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- You do know we could do it automatically with User:Inferno Bot, but whatever. Plutocow (talk) 04:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)