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The following "see also" is actually a list of (?unused?) references. Since WP see also lists are meant to be purely bluelinks to other WP articles, and some of the refs might possibly be useful, here they are. Please feel free to take any of them you need and put them in as inline citations in ref tags, but please, not as see also, miscellaneous, or whatnot. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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Look: WP:MOS exists. Really. It does.

How does an article get as long and sophisticated as this while neglecting such basic things as the fact that one is forbidden to capitalize an initial letter merely because it's in a section heading or a link? Real-World Effects Of Whatever had a capital initial letter even in "of"! Michael Hardy (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

PS: Ranges of pages or years or the like are to be formatted like this:

123–504

not like this:

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I fixed a lot of these in this article. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:50, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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I like this article, but it seems like a Less Wrong attempt to duplicate and reframe our already existing articles on critical thinking and fallacies. In other words, this has the potential to be viewed as a POV fork. Viriditas (talk) 00:21, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

This page makes sense from an academic perspective, because decision theory graduate coursework in psychology and business domains has a heavy emphasis on handling cognitive biases for organizational management purposes. So, having this as a free-standing page, rather than having a mitigation snippet in the dozens of other cognitive bias pages makes sense to me. JfromUK (talk) 02:24, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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