Talk:Transactive memory

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 11:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wegner's concept of Transactive Memory

Wegner's concept of Transactive Memory also includes external memory storage, e.g., paper notes, computer storage, links and tags to information on the internet <Wegner, D. M. (1986). Transactive memory: A contemporary analysis of the group mind. In B. Mullen & G. R. Goethals (Eds.) Theories of group behavior (pp. 185-208). New York: Springer-Verlag.>. Including external storage greatly enhances the power of the concept of Transactive Memory when the vast capacity and potential of the internet is considered. We are daily confronted with the problem of whether or not information needs to be stored in internal memory or in some form of external memory storage. Should I write this down, input it to my PDA, save the information to my computer, tag it, etc? A little thought leads to some interesting epistemological questions. Educational and testing issues are also raised. DougGriffith (talk) 21:06, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Though I this article gives a good general sense of transactive memory (systems) research, it avoids mentioning some of the conflicts present in the literature and presents this construct as more or less generally agreed upon. I am planning on making some changes to the article to better reflect the current and original work in the next few days and wanted to let people know the areas I was going to focus on. Lewis and Herndon (2011) "TMSs: Current issues and future research directions" (Organization Science 22, 5) outline how the construct is used or defined differently by some researches. For example, the Wikipedia article currently says that: "Many researchers consider the basic components of transactive memory system to be specialization, coordination and credibility" but those are only the indicators that a TMS has formed, not actually the TMS itself. The article also incorrectly asserts that Wegner's original work called the 3 components: encoding, storage, and retrieval; prerequisits for TMS. They are better described as the process of the development of TMS. JonKush (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I think we should remove the link to thisislike.com The best I can tell it is just a different kind of search engine, not directly related to transactive memory theory.JonKush (talk) 03:35, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Transactive memory/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Cirt (talk · contribs) 17:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC) I will review this article. — Cirt (talk) 17:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Good article nomination on hold

This article's Good Article promotion has been put on hold. During review, some issues were discovered that can be resolved without a major re-write. This is how the article, as of March 22, 2013, compares against the six good article criteria:

1. Well written?:

1. Writing is pretty good, but I suggest having previously uninvolved editors go through it for copyediting, first to start out if you know of anyone yourself who can do this, ask them.
2. Ask at WP:GOCE at the requests page, this might not get done immediately, but that's okay, even just if a request is put in for the future.
3. Ask at talk pages of any relevant WikiProjects, for example Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Psychology.

2. Factually accurate?:

1. Problems here. The references used look good, but for uniformity and standardization I would strongly recommend formatting those citations using cite templates at page WP:CIT.
2. Cites footnoted at ends of sentences seem to disappear later on in the same paragraphs, even if those cites are actually used for that information. Please re-add the cites at the end of any sentences or at the very least any paragraphs of which they were used for that info. This might not be a problem right now, but years from now if other people add unsourced info later on, it would be very hard to distinguish from the sourced info that just doesn't have a citation at the end of the sentence, you see.
3. For this process described above, I suggest using Harvard Citation style, for example see models at The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa.

3. Broad in coverage?:

1. Some short paragraphs throughout.
2. Small subsections at Transactive processes for the development of transactive memory systems.
3. Small subsections at Indicators of transactive memory.
4. Not the best conclusion wrapping up style at Extensions to other domains.
5. Could these all be expanded upon a bit more? Or perhaps if not, some paragraphs merged so that we don't have these one-sentence-long or two-sentence-long paragraphs?

4. Neutral point of view?: No issues here, seems neutrally worded throughout.

5. Article stability? Upon inspection of talk page and article edit history, article appears to be stable.

6. Images?: No images used, so passes here at the moment. Any chance for addition of some relevant free-use images?

Please address these matters soon and then leave a note here showing how they have been resolved. After 48 hours the article should be reviewed again. If these issues are not addressed within 7 days, the article may be failed without further notice. Thank you for your work so far. — Cirt (talk) 04:14, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Update: Not GA at this time

Unfortunately the above review was not addressed. The article is not GA quality at this time. — Cirt (talk) 17:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Expansion of Transactive Processes Section

This section is sparse, as noted in the good article review, so I would like to add more to the encoding, storage, and retrieval based off information from already cited sources, and possibly give some quick examples to make the definitions more relevant. It might also help to add in a basic definition of specialization since it is mentioned here before it is explained more in depth later in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Termao63 (talk • contribs) 08:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)