Talk:Woo

woo seems more of a korean name than chinese. chinese generally spell it wu. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.30.209.70 (talk • contribs)

RPG Game

In merging in entries from WoO (which I'm making a redirect to here), there's an entry for "World of Outlaws, a RPG game". From what I can see, World of Outlaws is a car racing body, so I'm going to leave it at that. If anybody has a better citation for the game, please add it to this dab page. I also found a "see also" for WOO pointing to MOO, which I suspect is totally bogus, so I'm leaving that out. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:12, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

wacky science et al.

woo also seems to be used in the context of some unscientific following, such as atlantis.

FlowRate (talk) 22:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Two efforts to add this meaning have been blocked. It's quite widespread and should be referenced, but since I'm new to wikipedia, I'm finding most of my efforts are being reverted. I was asked to read the MOS on Disambig pages, and as best I can tell, this meaning should be listed here. I'm going to try and add it one more time. Anonyfox36 (talk) 04:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

The reason I've reverted your addition is because it doesn't seem to fit the guidelines in MOS:DAB. I looked at Pseudoscience and don't see any reference to woo in that article as an alternative name. An important element of adding anything to Wikipedia is that it should be verifiable. If you can find some references for woo being another name for pseudoscience, then please update the later article with that information (and references). Note that blogs are generally NOT considered reliable references. At that point, I'd say it would make sense to have the pseudoscience entry here. In any case, Mos:dab#Individual_entries gives some style guidelines on how the entry should be formatted. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:45, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that on this page is a link to the word woo woo in Wikitionary, which woo is a contraction of when used in the sense of pseudoscience. Second, these blogs present an example of usage, the fact that this entire community uses this term is why it should be included in the first place.Anonyfox36 (talk) 04:48, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I myself was just about to add the pseudoscience slang meaning and then I came across the above discussion. So I've asked on Talk:Pseudoscience what they think there.--85.158.139.99 (talk) 16:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Do a google news search for "woowoo" to find many quality newspapers using this term to describe psychics etc, and even the title of Ben Goldacre's columns in the guardian contain the word woo. Verbal chat 19:19, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Was also about to add the term. Time to re-add it, I think.99.245.224.197 (talk) 22:28, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

The pseudoscience listing attributes the use of the term "woo" in this sense to James Randi but, as noted above, neither the Randi article nor the pseudoscience article mention this usage. The attribution to Randi is undated. An apparently early use of the term in this sense appears in the (unused) vocal version of the theme to the TV series Bewitched (Greenfield & Keller, published 1964): "That brand of woo that you've been brew-in' took me by surprise...." I've added the reference to the pseudoscience listing with a link to the Bewitched Wikipedia article, but of course this doesn't mention the show theme lyrics either. Please feel free to remove this addition if deemed inappropriate. Richard E (talk) 21:45, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

...And I see the above reference has been removed. Fair enough, though I would note that this appears to be a very early use of the word in this sense and appears to predate Randi's use of it. But never mind... Richard E (talk) 09:13, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

FWIW it absolutely is used to refer to paranormal and occult activities, usually dismissing them in a humorous manner. I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be added to Wikipedia. 2601:1C0:6C00:C6F0:6CB9:E95D:C56E:1F3F (talk) 17:33, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

References

Woo name?

How does one include a name such as the known John Woo in a western world romanization system into this dismg page which only looks at the original name using different romanization system?--TGC55 (talk) 03:18, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

WoO

WoO = "Werke ohne Opuszahl" - is NOT ONLY Beethoven's indication of pieces, but also using in case of Clementi, Mendelssohn, Raff, Brahms, Schumann and other composers. Sverige2009 (talk) 12:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Sock puppetry

Has anyone been able to track down the source of the sockpuppet accounts that have been targeting this page for the past month or so? I suppose it could be a vandal-bot or some other unauthorized automated script by a hacker or so. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 02:30, 10 December 2016 (UTC)