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  2. Instruction creep - Wikipedia

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    Instruction creep or rule creep occurs when instructions or rules accumulate over time until they are unmanageable or inappropriate. It is a type of scope creep . The accumulation of bureaucratic requirements results in overly complex procedures that are often misunderstood, irritating, time-wasting, or ignored.

  3. Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep - Wikipedia

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    Essays against instruction creep. Wikipedia:Asshole John rule; Wikipedia:Policy writing is hard; Address problems without creating new specialized rules; Wikipedia:Avoid writing redundant essays; Wikipedia:If MOS doesn't need a rule on something, then it needs to not have a rule on that thing (WP:MOSBLOAT) Wikipedia:The rules are principles

  4. Concept creep - Wikipedia

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    Concept creep is the process by which harm-related topics experience semantic expansion to include topics which would not have originally been envisaged to be included under that label. [1] It was first identified by Nick Haslam in 2016, who identified its effects on the concepts of abuse, bullying, trauma, mental disorder, addiction, and ...

  5. Scope creep - Wikipedia

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    Scope creep (also called requirement creep, or kitchen sink syndrome) in project management is continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project's scope, generally experienced after the project begins. [1] This can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered harmful.

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Standard: He attended the School of Economic and Business Sciences. Non-standard: Leading economical indicators suggest that a recession may be on the horizon. Non-standard: The actor should be economic in his use of movement. elicit and illicit. Elicit is a verb that means to draw out, evoke or obtain.

  7. Mission creep - Wikipedia

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    Mission creep is the gradual or incremental expansion of an intervention, project or mission, beyond its original scope, focus or goals, a ratchet effect spawned by initial success. [1] Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to how each success breeds more ambitious interventions until a final failure happens, stopping the ...

  8. Feature creep - Wikipedia

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    Feature creep may also arise as a result of compromise from a committee implementing several different viewpoints or use cases in the same product, even for opportunistic reasons. [4] As more features are added to support each approach, cross-conversion features between the multiple paradigms may further complicate the total features.

  9. The Crate - Wikipedia

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    An old wooden crate, marked from an 1834 Arctic expedition, is discovered by a janitor beneath the basement stairs at the zoology department of Horlicks University. He notifies Dexter Stanley, the school's biology professor, and together they open it to discover the crate contains a small yet powerful – and hungry – beast, still alive after 140 years.