Talk:Decision-making/Archives/2018

Wikipedia article chart
i dont understand why there should be a chart on creating an article in wikipedia in an article about decision making — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuck1609 (talk • contribs) 12:39, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

What is going on – sock puppetry?
I notice an abundance of single-purpose accounts that have each been making a small number of edits to this article. In the cases when multiple edits have been made by the same account, they were typically all within about one hour of each other – as if someone created an account and then abandoned it after a single brief edit session. This may indicate sock puppetry to promote some particular agenda or point of view. There has also been some ordinary vandalism, but that's not what I'm talking about. Many of the edits of these apparently different users seem to be similar and possibly cooperative. Many of them are related to the idea of using "tacit knowledge" or "gut feelings" in decision-making. The edits don't seem to be outright vandalism, and might even be intended as constructive. This doesn't appear to be related to the declared Spring 2018 course assignment. Here are some examples: Aside from these most obvious examples, there are a number of other accounts and IP addresses that have edited this article and relatively few others. Until this edit of July 2015 (by Biogeographist, which is not an SPA account, and indeed seems like a very helpful triple-barnstar editor), there was no mention of "tacit knowledge" in the article – only "tacit assumptions".
 * Ansku193 made one edit of this article and no other edits (13 November 2018).
 * Ernokajander made two edits of this article and no other edits (11 November 2018).
 * Ebaguet made one edit of this article and no other edits (11 November 2018).
 * JariKuu18 made one edit of this article and no other edits (11 November 2018).
 * AtteYM made one edit of this article and no other edits (11 November 2018).
 * Sultsus made two edits of this article and no other edits (2 November 2018).
 * Benfshr made one edit of this article and no other edits (29 October 2018).
 * Goh km made one edit of this article and no other edits (20 October 2018).
 * Nagendra103 made one edit of this article and no other edits (30 August 2018).
 * Ramo 2266 made one edit of this article and no other edits (12 April 2017).
 * Mdiane24 made nine edits of this article and no other edits (20 March 2017).
 * Mosesbasseyibiang made one edit of this article and no other edits (29 November 2016).
 * TomMcNamee made one edit of this article and no other edits (21 June 2015).

—BarrelProof (talk) 21:27, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It's peculiar alright. Usually one would expect something like this for promotion or pushing of contentious content, which doesn't seem to be the case here. In fact, what with the innocuous character of these edits, the approach strikes me as distinct overkill :p I do get a class project vibe though - maybe everyone has been told to "as homework, make one edit to this article" - pretty useless way to go about it... Does the recent turn towards tacit etcetera strike you as undue? Can't quite tell myself. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:10, 7 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I watch this article, and I had noticed the sudden flurry of edits. I had been waiting for the activity to subside before surveying the damage, which I haven't yet surveyed, so I can't yet provide any hypotheses about what happened but I agree it is unusual. I remember thinking that it looked like students. Thanks to for the notification. Biogeographist (talk) 14:21, 7 December 2018 (UTC)