Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Investigative methods in heuristics


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The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 10:55, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Investigative methods in heuristics

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A student essay on unclear topic. The shortest path to an encyclopedic article in this area is to trash this and start again. It's really unclear which of the many kinds of heuristics it's dealing with, certainly not all of the clear categories mentioned in the heuristic article are covered. Many of the sources are primary sources for this (they're about heuristics not investigative methods in heuristics). None of the references appear to coverage all fields of heuristics, making the topic WP:OR. The tone is completely unencyclopaedic. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * (1) Scope (does the titel fit the article?): The scope is clear in the disambiguation (the argument that coverage and reference to all methods of heuristics shold be included is then also not applying as the article narrows down the scope) Also: Wikipedia is a living encyclopedia, so it makes sense to have more and more people add to the methods and then delete the disambiguation. (2) Form (is the form suitable for an encyclopedia?): Objective criteria could be (1) referencing what is in the article, (2) explanation so that the content is understandable (3) not directed to a scientific audience, I think the article fulfils those. -- interested2013, 20:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The topic is unclear because user:DCG moved the original article, [[Methodology of heuristics]] into an unclear title, which has no explanation in the article. - Altenmann >t 07:26, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I do not know what a "method in heuristics" means. If I substitute the word "heuristic" by its wikipedia-definition the current title reads "Methods in experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery". I don't know if "in" is right here. -- interested2013, 20:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep, rename to the original title, Methodology of heuristics. While the topic (under the original title) is broad, the content is no way original research, references are reasonable, journal articles are not forbidden as refs in wikipedia and many of them are overviews. A possible problem is overlap with other wikipedia articles, but this is not the reason for deletion. - Altenmann >t 07:26, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * neither the current name nor the previous one have more than 100 hits in google, these are made-up WP:OR names. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:11, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Google hits should not determine what is included in an Encyclopedia - otherwise the encyclopedia would be defined by web content while it is about much more than what is on the or web -- interested2013, 20:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:51, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:39, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

 
 * Delete Totally unclear under any title--the move I made was a desperate attempt to make sense of it. I know of no intelligable way to express the concept of " Investigative methods for investigation the process by which people investigate things. " The only rational subject is heuristics and can not be separated from it.  DGG ( talk ) 20:40, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 03:52, 30 December 2013 (UTC)




 * Delete their are no special methodologies for studying heuristic decision making. There are just the usual qualitative and quantitative research methods. A Handbook of Process Tracing Methods for Decision Research comes the closest.  --Bejnar (talk) 00:35, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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