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42:. 5 votes to delete, 1 of which accepted redirect without merge; 1 vote to redirect without merge, 2 votes to keep, one of which accepted merge/redirect; 1 vote to merge/redirect. This amounts to 6 votes to 3 against merging any content. Counting the 1 clear keep vote as impliedly preferring redirection as an alternative to deletion, the vote is then tied 4 to 4 on the issue of redirect. Accordingly, I will leave it as a redirect. 228:
just about anything in martial arts. "McDojo" is just a way of saying a school is in some way bullshido. To redirect the broader term to something that would be considered a specific type of bullshido seems backwards to me. As for the term "bullshido" being offense, Knowledge (XXG) has articles on
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I would like to point out that "bullshido" and "McDojo" are rather different terms. A McDojo is a derogatory term for a bad school, while bullshido is a broader concept of fraud in martial arts, and can apply to books, movies, instructors, students, techniques, training methods, belt systems, and
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was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was
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Is basically an advert for bullshido.com, a martial arts training site. Does not appear that anyone uses the term outside of them. In any case the article is nearly all first person. Not likely to ever be an encyclopedic article, and is essentially vanity. -
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This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like other '/delete' pages is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.
142:) was intended a few years back to expose fraud in the martial arts, a worthy enough motive. Among martial artists with connectivity it is a fairly well known group compared to most others, hence my comments above. 69:. The term is used pretty frequently on rec.martial-arts, and may predate the site. However, it's not commonly used outside of that newsgroup. The term "bullshitsu" is also sometimes used for the same concept. 87:
people who comprise the Western "martial arts community." So, I believe that Bullshido is a notable enough group in that community (such as it is) to deserve an article here, but
202:. This is a somewhat notable concept, not somethink that is specific to just bullshido.com. Removing the confusing quote altogether would probably improve the article. 21: 124:, since that is what I had actually planned on writing about. In any case, I'm going to leave the decision up to more experienced Wikipedians and 17: 120:
related post from Bullshido and slapped it on, and the article has since become rather messy. I might be better off creating a
116:, at my prompting. It started as a dictdef, and I was hoping to flesh it out into something useful, but someone took a single 172: 184:. The article at present is just a rant copied from somewhere else; I don't think there's anything to add to 189: 121: 83:
This isn't a good article. I know a thing or two about traditional martial arts as well as the, erm,
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I am actually partly responsible for this article, as it was created by Phrost, the head of the
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Ah, that explains the scattered appearance of the article. Bullshido (or
199: 185: 181: 139: 39: 233: 229: 113: 156:, as the term seems notable, needs some work though 236:, so I don't think this is really an issue. -- 105:. This article is bull-shido. Not notable. -- 8: 18:Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion 7: 28: 1: 258:Please do not edit this page 274: 61:22:37, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC) 251:17:16, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC) 198:or merge and redirect to 177:23:03, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC) 46:14:04, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) 240:13:30, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC) 220:20:48, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC) 206:09:54, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC) 192:02:03, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) 146:15:36, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) 109:15:22, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) 99:03:53, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) 80:22:54, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) 36:REDIRECT WITHOUT MERGING 122:Fraud in martial arts 190:Wile E. Heresiarch 114:Bullshido websites 265: 175: 170: 163: 91:article? Feh... 273: 272: 268: 267: 266: 264: 263: 262: 212:or redirect to 173: 166: 161: 54: 26: 25: 24: 12: 11: 5: 271: 269: 253: 252: 244: 243: 242: 241: 222: 221: 207: 193: 178: 150: 149: 148: 147: 133: 132: 110: 100: 81: 53: 48: 27: 15: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 270: 261: 259: 250: 246: 245: 239: 235: 231: 226: 225: 224: 223: 219: 215: 211: 208: 205: 201: 197: 194: 191: 187: 183: 179: 176: 171: 169: 164: 158: 155: 152: 151: 145: 141: 137: 136: 135: 134: 131: 127: 123: 119: 115: 111: 108: 104: 101: 98: 94: 90: 86: 82: 79: 75: 71: 68: 64: 63: 62: 60: 52: 49: 47: 45: 41: 37: 32: 23: 19: 257: 254: 213: 209: 195: 180:Redirect to 167: 153: 125: 102: 92: 88: 84: 66: 55: 35: 30: 29: 118:Ashida Kim 218:GenkiNeko 144:Fire Star 97:Fire Star 51:Bullshido 31:Bullshido 22:Bullshido 247:Delete. 238:Aesopian 130:Aesopian 20:‎ | 249:Indrian 126:Abstain 93:Abstain 44:Postdlf 214:McDojo 210:Delete 200:McDojo 186:McDojo 182:McDojo 140:McDojo 107:Improv 103:Delete 85:touchy 74:Gwalla 67:delete 59:Taxman 40:McDojo 65:Weak 16:< 234:shit 232:and 230:fuck 196:Keep 162:siro 154:Keep 89:this 78:Talk 204:jni 38:to 260:. 188:. 128:. 95:. 76:| 72:— 174:o 168:χ 159:—

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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
Bullshido
McDojo
Postdlf
Bullshido
Taxman

Gwalla
Talk
Fire Star
Improv
Bullshido websites
Ashida Kim
Fraud in martial arts
Aesopian
McDojo
Fire Star

siro
χ
o
McDojo
McDojo
Wile E. Heresiarch
McDojo
jni
GenkiNeko
fuck
shit
Aesopian

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