Category talk:Conspiracy theorists

message: I revised the category description to try and remove subjectivity in determining category inclusion.  One of the complaints about the category was that there is too much subjectivity in whether or not to call someone a conspiracy theorist.  I narrowed the category definition to include only theorists who actively attempt to defend ideas currently included in articles under :Category:Conspiracy theories.  So if a theory appears under that category, then anyone who actively defends it falls under this category as a theorist. 
For more discussion, see the Category deletion thread for this category at  Dugwiki 21:17, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revised the category description to try and remove subjectivity 

message: Presently several members of this category are not individuals. Only people whould be in this category, not groups and organizations. We should therefore create another category for such entitities, and the only reason I'm not doing it right away is that I'm unsure what the best name would be. __meco (talk) 11:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A separate category for groups and organizations needed 

message: I totally repudiate the attempt here to put 'Adolf Hitler' on equal footing with, say, Phil Berg, Richard C. Hoagland or Webster Tarpley. If we are talking about 'conspiracy theorists', why not include Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as well? Woodrow Wilson was buddy-buddy with the Ku Klux Klan and he believed in the same fallacious theories on biology and race as Adolf Hitler - that the Nordic race was supreme and that intermingling with blacks and semitics resulted in 'race suicide'. I did not make that up - they said it themselves. Anyone who knows anything about eugenics in the early 20th century should be able to verify that for themselves by digging into the archival records, going through the newspapers of the period and looking at what prominent people said about the different 'races'.
Obviously, some attempt at differentiation has to be applied here - you can't - with a straight face - put Adolf Hitler next to, say, Webster Tarpley and Gore Vidal and expect to get away with it without people calling into question the motives behind such an attempt to stimulate, feed and misdirect preconceived notions as to what a 'conspiracy theorist' believes and what he represents.84.30.34.104 (talk) 14:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think his race theories defaming Jews would qualify very well as conspiracy theories. So, yes I think it's well justified. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 19:50, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking Adolf Hitler to 'Conspiracy theorists' in general defamation of character 

message: Firstly: let's say we find a person, a scientist or so, that researches in real conspiracies, should (s)he be here or not? By convention no, but ... shouldn't the term be false conspiracy theorists or some such?
Secondly: a comment on the "inherently POV" complaint above, if the external world regards someone as "conspiracy theorist" it is "inherently NPOV" and according to the principles of Wikipedia to use that here too. Wikipedia is strongly biased in direction towards majority opinion, and usually that is acceptable. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 19:48, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 'False Conspiracy' theorists

message: How does one get a conspiracy theory (or theorist) added to this list? There are a series of at least 6 books and a soon to be released documentary on the Missing 411 conspiracy created and espoused by David Paulides, yet I see no way to add that here. RobP (talk) 20:33, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing 411