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[[File:Cerne Abbas Giant's phallus.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Just because the middle of the [[Cerne Abbas Giant]] featuresis gianta big load of [[bollocks]], it doesn't mean that your article should be too.]]

The [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines|policies]] of Wikipedia state that articles must be [[WP:V|verifiable]] and stated from a [[WP:NPOV|neutral point of view]]. This strongly implies that they must also be ''true''. Sometimes, articles arrive at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion|articles for deletion]] which have only the most tenuous connection to reality: they are, to use a [[British English|British]] term, '''complete [[bollocks]]'''.<ref>Roughly translates to "complete nonsense" in other dialects, but is stronger in tone.</ref> Some giveaway signs of ''complete bollocks'' are phrases such as '''emerging theory''' and '''widely disputed'''.

Some giveaway signs of ''complete bollocks'' are phrases such as '''emerging theory''' and '''widely disputed'''. Articles [[Puffery|puffing]] [[WP:WEB|non-notable websites]] are often ''complete bollocks'' or, in other terms, "bullshit", in that they make wholly spurious claims to notability (e.g. claiming to have originated some new process, neologism or phenomenon which is either not verifiably existent or, conversely, blindingly obvious). These articles very often start with the name of the site, properly capitalized, as a link. Whereas [[WikipediaUser:GlossaryGeogre#GSayings_of_Geogre_the_Wise_(the_Geogre's_Laws)|Geogre's Law]] posits incorrect capitalization as a hallmark of vanity in biographies, abundant capitalization and/or trademark signs (sometimes linked at every single instance) is often a hallmark of ''complete bollocks'' in articles about websites.

A confirmatory sign of ''complete bollocks'' is a set of circular articles, or a [[WP:WG|self-contained nest of articles]], such as three articles that only reference only each other and are themselves composed of nonsense, particularly if the set is started by one author or a set of authors (or IP addresses) who all contribute to the same set of articles. In wiki parlance this is a ''[[Wikipedia:Walled garden|walled garden]]''.

There is no shortage of [[WP:BAI|bad ideas for articles]], and some of them elevate themselves to the giddy heights of [[WP:Stupid|really stupid ideas for articles]]. It's this latter category which is likely to be ''complete bollocks''. And if you like to eat turds that is good.

The reader is challenged by this section to identify what he has learned from the text that was not already known, or could not have been thought up by a mind gifted with sufficient leisure and vocabulary. Pay careful heed to the bolded terms, with their Greek letters and [[classical compounds]]. The presence of Greek letters is a sure indication of [[mathematics|mathematical]] rigor, and classical compounds indicate that [[science]] is at play here. If there is an exam with this course, be assured that the student will be expected to repeat these terms and their given definitions. The tone assures the reader that a great deal of research, or at least [[tautology (rhetoric)|logic]], backs up the assertion that the causes of a polygenetic problem will intervene either simultaneously, concurrently, or serially.

::: &{{mdash;}} Attributed to [[Abraham Lincoln]]

::: &{{mdash;}} [[Joan Didion]], "On the Mall", in ''[[The White Album (book)|The White Album]]''

::: &{{mdash;}} [[List_of_recurring_The_Simpsons_characters#Hans_Moleman|Hans Moleman]]

== See also ==

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[[Category:Wikipedia essays|Complete Bollocksabout deletion]]