RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Hive mind
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Hive mind | Result: Moved to draftspace[edit]
Delete[edit]
- Silly nerd trivia. Seriously, what is the point of this garbage? GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 21:34, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
- I agree. Spud (talk) 03:16, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
Keep[edit]
- It is silly nerd trivia but the Fun namespace contains decent amounts of silly nerd trivia alongside other stupid stuff. Alternatively could change the normal namespace version to conspiracy theories related to hive minds (if someone finds one, none are coming to mind that are specifically hive minds and not "collective consciousness" woo) and have the fun version be silly nerd trivia. PLMMJ (talk) 00:54, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
- I kind of feel that something could be made of it, though I am honestly not sure what. I would agree with sending it to fun.Bob"Life is short and (insert adjective)" 07:59, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
Merge/redirect[edit]
- Draft it. It could be missional (I'm sure there's enough related woo and political undercurrents), but would require a complete rewrite to actually focus on things related to RW. If it's a draft, there'll be time to trim the excess and add more relevant information. If that doesn't happen, it'll still be out of the mainspace. – Regards, Avarice 23:12, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, move it to draft space. Potentially missional, but in its current state requires a rewrite. I hate bullet lists. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 23:14, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
- Antares (talk) 00:51, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
Goat[edit]
- @Avarice, Cosmikdebris, and Antares I understand the whole "improve, don't delete"philosophy, but the article was created in 2008. No one ever improved it, and if someone ever does, it won't resemble the current article, so I don't think this works even as a draft. GeeJayKWhere all evil dwells Where every lie is true 13:27, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- I see what you're saying, but as it stands, we recognize that the article needs to be rewritten and are willing to help accommodate that. Does that mean that the article will actually stop being trash? No. But if there's a big "Deleted by AfD" at the top of a blank page, it's definitely never going to pop up again as an article. It's probably still best to risk it languishing in Draftspace than guarantee it dying forever. That being said, if it becomes abundantly clear that nobody's going to fix it, I would be less opposed to deletion. – Regards, Avarice 15:06, 5 July 2025 (UTC)
- I can see the RW-relevant kernel here. People frequently use "hive mind" to say their opponents are an interchangeable mob, also carrying the implications they are controlled by an outside force and/or not capable of full human thought. (It's like a classier version of saying the guy you are arguing with is an NPC.) It is also frequently used by writers to create dehumanized caricatures of societies they do not like. I put "Goat" instead of "merge/redirect" because I am not sure what I would like this to be merged into and I don't know if anyone could make a full article about it. I might change this to "merge into draftspace" though.-Flandres (talk) 18:26, 24 July 2025 (UTC)