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I was wondering if we could add an nfd category for “blatant obvious” or something along those lines. The nfd|sar tag can differ in it’s meaning and isn’t always the best option for articles like these. I don’t even know if I have the power to contribute to the nfd category, but I decided it would be best to get some input.

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I’d be opposed to an NFD category like this, because something that might seem blatantly obvious to one person might not be to another. Things vary based on culture, personal belief, and general lifestyle differences - for example, someone might not know how to make coffee or tea because they don’t drink it, another person might be disabled and need help tying their shoes (or simply just want to know if there’s a more efficient way of doing it), and some things that may seem obvious in one culture (e.g. saying “bless you” after sneezing) are not done in other cultures, or are even socially unacceptable. Not to mention that some “obvious” topics can actually be repurposed - for example, How to Breathe  discusses breathing techniques that don’t necessarily come naturally to us. For stuff that’s clearly  meant to be reiterating what everyone can do, like blinking, you can just NFD it as a joke or sarcastic - people will know:slight_smile:

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I’m not opposed to this, but I don’t support it yet either, do you have any examples of recently deleted articles (or current articles) that would fit in this category?

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Well, I’ve been seeing them for a while now, but the one that made me make this discussion is  wikihow.com/Drink-a-Can-of-Doctor-Pepper . I don’t remember any other ones because I just used an nfd|sar. Thanks for your feedback.

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NFD|jok can work well for the egregiously bad too.  But as mentioned, blatantly obvious is only in the eye of the beholder, example… How to Breathe , over 1,000,000 views.

As an aside… here’s how an article can grow.  How to Breathe at its incarnation in 2005.

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Alright, thanks for letting me know!