RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Sudden outbreak of common sense

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1. Currently the article is just a list of good changes of mind that we like, not actually a useful concept or page. Sir ℱ℧ℤℤϒℂᗩℑᑭƠℑᗩℑƠ (talk/stalk) 01:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
2. Sounds like stopped clock? I do like the sound of 'sudden outbreak of common sense', though. Carpetsmoker (talk) 19:02, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
3. I agree with a lot of what it says on the article's talk page. What the page really lists is liberal points of view being expressed by previously reactionary people or regimes. Some of them resulted in lasting changes, some didn't and could just be considered "stopped clock". None of them would be the result of someone suddenly having a change of heart without bowing to any kind of outside pressure. i'm saying "delete" just because the term is very ill defined. Spud (talk) 11:27, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
4. I had the same thought as Carpetsmoker: This sounds like a duplicate of stopped clock, even if the title is rather catchy. Perhaps some of the content can be incorporated into our stopped clock article as "similar concepts" or something like it? ScepticWombat (talk) 09:59, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
5. Aside from the article being listcrufty, common sense is kind of a shitty rallying point which people from all sides of the political spectrum and science/pseudoscience spectrum appeal to. The things listed on that page all came about for various complicated reasons, & attributing them to sudden outbreaks of common sense is facile. ΨΣΔξΣΓΩΙÐ^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 02:46, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Goat

• Merge and redirect to Stopped clock - David Gerard (talk) 00:28, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
• Agree with Gerard. AgingHippie (talk) 02:49, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Why redirect? Is it really a term people are going to search for? Wēāŝēīōīď^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 02:59, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

What's wrong with having a snarky redirect to stopped clock? 141.134.75.236 (talk) 13:17, 25 January 2015 (UTC)