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Pejorative.
Links: Thanks for doing that. I typically don't do that stuff on the first run. When writing, I typically have several browser tabs open for my research, and I don't want to make things more complex by opening even more tabs to track down what should be linked.
Pejorative: When I first saw that, it struck me as a rather odd place to use that word. I think of "pejorative" to mean a word with negative connotations to describe something that can also be described with positive or neutral connotations. For example, one might say that "n----r" is a pejorative term for African-American. But if the thing itself is bad, it isn't pejorative to say so. So one wouldn't say that "holocaust" is a pejorative term for what the Nazis did. Since the fourth word of this article is "deceptive", it's clear where we stand.
But the real problem came when I happened to look at the Wikipedia page for clickbait. (Can't be bothered to give you a link; you can find it.) The article starts with the same six words. This set off my plagiarism alarm, of course. (The author was not one of the usual suspects.) With all the recent fighting over plagiarism and originality, I decided that that word had to go. By the way, I looked at the WP page only to check that I wasn't describing the completely wrong phenomenon. I always do my own writing. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 16:18, 10 September 2017 (EDT)
Pejorative: When I first saw that, it struck me as a rather odd place to use that word. I think of "pejorative" to mean a word with negative connotations to describe something that can also be described with positive or neutral connotations. For example, one might say that "n----r" is a pejorative term for African-American. But if the thing itself is bad, it isn't pejorative to say so. So one wouldn't say that "holocaust" is a pejorative term for what the Nazis did. Since the fourth word of this article is "deceptive", it's clear where we stand.
But the real problem came when I happened to look at the Wikipedia page for clickbait. (Can't be bothered to give you a link; you can find it.) The article starts with the same six words. This set off my plagiarism alarm, of course. (The author was not one of the usual suspects.) With all the recent fighting over plagiarism and originality, I decided that that word had to go. By the way, I looked at the WP page only to check that I wasn't describing the completely wrong phenomenon. I always do my own writing. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 16:18, 10 September 2017 (EDT)