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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".

—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 BarrelProof for the notification. Biogeographist (talk) 14:21, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
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