Talk:Analytic hierarchy process
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This article currently links to two example pages, each described as "an appendix" in the article. These are at Talk:Analytic hierarchy process/Example Leader and Talk:Analytic hierarchy process/Example Car. Wikipedia articles do not normally have appendices. Moreover, these pages being in the talk namespace means that they have no talk pages of their own to discuss possible improvements.
It seems to me that these should be moved to the article space, perhaps at Analytic hierarchy process leader example and Analytic hierarchy process car example, linking back to Analytic hierarchy process via {{main}}.
Does anyone have any views on this? DES (talk) 15:17, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- There has been some discussion of this (it's probably in the Archives now). As I recall it, somebody objected to the examples being in the article space, due to their "how-to" nature. They suggested putting them where they are today. Wherever they are, and whether they are called "appendixes" or something else, IMHO they (and other examples) are essential to understanding the AHP process.
- Maybe they could be off-Wiki somewhere, but that would further discourage possible improvements. On the other hand, they are carefully-crafted examples, and as long as they are in Wikipedia, some well-meaning person could come in and inadvertently ruin them. I guess it's all a big tradeoff. Lou Sander (talk) 15:58, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- Taking a closer look, the existing pages have very few wikilinks (making them easier to move off-Wiki), but have quite a few notes and references (making it maybe harder to move them). Lou Sander (talk) 16:01, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- In the sense that it's of a "how-to" nature, actually would it be more suitable to be on Wikibooks? C933103 (talk) 01:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- That discussion was in 2009, and can be found at Talk:Analytic hierarchy process/Archive 5#Moving the example. Four editors commented. No one discussed exactly where the split-off example would be moved to. I am going to move the pages into article space. In my view worked examples are not the same as "how to" pages and i don't think this will be a problem. Of course, you or anyone is free to copy the pages off-wiki, as long as you make proper attribution. I haven't worked much with Wikibooks, so I can't really say if that would be a suitable venue -- that could always be done at a later point if desired. DES (talk) 13:01, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- Indeed, Lou Sander, I now notice that you were the one who started the above-linked discussion, and split off the examples to their curent location. DES (talk) 13:03, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- I have done the move, to Analytic hierarchy process — Car example, and Analytic hierarchy process — Leader example. The pages can be moved elsewhere if a consensus to do so is formed. DES (talk) 13:44, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- That discussion was in 2009, and can be found at Talk:Analytic hierarchy process/Archive 5#Moving the example. Four editors commented. No one discussed exactly where the split-off example would be moved to. I am going to move the pages into article space. In my view worked examples are not the same as "how to" pages and i don't think this will be a problem. Of course, you or anyone is free to copy the pages off-wiki, as long as you make proper attribution. I haven't worked much with Wikibooks, so I can't really say if that would be a suitable venue -- that could always be done at a later point if desired. DES (talk) 13:01, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- In the sense that it's of a "how-to" nature, actually would it be more suitable to be on Wikibooks? C933103 (talk) 01:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- DESiegel Oh, yes. There were several of us working on the article at that point, some students of AHP and me. We often worked from the same location, and got accused of being sockpuppets. I don't remember who raised the "how-to" point.
- Wherever the articles are is fine by me. I like the idea of people being able to make suggestions. If somebody clobbers the example, it can always be restored to its prior status.
- I'm not an AHP practitioner or expert, outside what I've learned from working extensively on this article. I do know that within the academic community, there are cranky people with ideas of what MCDM method is best, and that the other methods aren't any good. They can, and do, go on and on about why AHP (or any other method) isn't any good. Mostly they are not experienced Wikipedia editors, so damage gets done.
- One good thing that arose from all this is that the flaps about AHP led to huge expansion/improvement of the MCDM article. Lou Sander (talk) 13:59, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
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Why are there no women in the picture? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.225.94.197 (talk) 08:35, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
- If you randomly pick 3 people, there'd be 1 in 4 chances that those people are all of the same gender...what's the problem with this 25% chance...C933103 (talk) 19:12, 30 March 2014 (UTC)