Talk:Social information seeking

Conflict of interest
User:ShahChirag (talk, contrib) created this article and contributed most of the content referencing his own work. He is also the creator and the main contributor of Collaborative information seeking article having similar contents and also promoting his work.

Correction - Collaborative information seeking and Social information seeking do not have "similar" content. They are related, much like information seeking and information retrieval or social networking and social media are, but not the same. As I have admitted below, an issue with social information seeking article is that it lacks a more comprehensive treatment of the subject. I will encourage other researchers in this field to contribute to this page, hoping for a more neutral treatment of the material. ShahChirag (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Merger discussion
Social information seeking has come out as a new area of research due to two major developments in the past few years: extension of information seeking processes to incorporate social dimension, and increased popularity of social/community Q&A sites such as Yahoo! Answers and AnswerBag. The area focuses on people seeking information through other people, as opposed to Collaborative information seeking, which focuses on people seeing information with other people. This is an important distinction - one that guides investigations of various issues, development of systems/services, and their evaluations. As an author, researcher, and a teacher in this field, and someone who has witnessed this research domain taking shape over the last several years, I strongly believe that Social information seeking deserves its own page and not be merged with other similar-sounding names, including Collaborative information seeking and Social search. Currently the article lacks a comprehensive treatment of the subject and the way to address it is by incorporating more works, theories, and applications found under this umbrella. But merging it with other topics or deleting the page is not a wise choice. There are PhD students I know doing their dissertations on this topic; specifically in this research area, and not doing it as a sub-topic of some other area. ShahChirag (talk) 20:32, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Suggest new page
There have been many research studies in friend sourcing, which is related to social Q&A, social information seeking, and crowdsourcing. I suggest there could be a separate new page about friend sourcing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guoanhong (talk • contribs) 04:18, 8 May 2015 (UTC)