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series (someone had started a group of polls structured in a similar fashion), but no other articles mentioned it and there were no signs of a linkspam campaign. Grupthink did appear as a "requested article" listed on the
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columnist Aaron Rutkoff, is actually a website that allows users to create and run polls on virtually any subject imaginable. As one example of this, Rutkoff noted a
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included Knowledge in its discussion of Grupthink last week (no, that's not a misspelling, although it's sometimes written Grūpthink).
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poll, which asks site users to pick "the weirdest, funniest, craziest, and most bizarre entries" Knowledge carries.
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of the original deletion because the content was not identical and presented new arguments for her notability.
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currently has Knowledge leading in response to the question of what is the "best open source project".
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in July and re-created three different times. The third time, which came after the appearance of the
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are documented on Knowledge, nobody had attempted to create an article on Grupthink at the time the
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on Knowledge), "List of songs featuring cowbells" (despite the fact that the article has since been
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Meanwhile, Knowledge seems to be a fairly popular resource with the Grupthink community (see
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The deleted article on songs with cowbells also made an appearance in Sunday's
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I eagerly await the WSJ article deriding stock markets as "grupthink." --
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In a twist on the charge sometimes leveled at Knowledge editors, the
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wrote about it. It did show up as an external link related to the
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The "cowbell segue" overlaps a bit with the first section in
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subpage, under "Internet and tech culture - Miscellaneous".
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Leading the poll, which started running 10 May, is the
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Contribute
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Michael Snow
Wall Street Journal
Grupthink
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List of fictional expletives
List of English words containing Q not followed by U
featured list
deleted
Lists of lists
Groupthink
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Nihilartikel
Heavy metal umlaut
archived story
an article
Articles for deletion
Pooky
Chuck Greene
Constantian Society

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