[WikiEN-l] Psychology of problem Wikipedians: excessive "need for cognition"

Mon Jun 5 11:41:18 UTC 2006

On 6/5/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>
> >Karl A. Krueger wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>When people attempt to explain other people's actions in terms of
> >>psychological disorders or oddities, it seems to me that it often
> >>reflects a lack of respect or human sympathy for the people thus
> >>diagnosed.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >[snip long post not addressing the point at all]
> >
> >
> >Gosh, I guess that means we can't call obvious problem cases obvious
> >problem cases, and certainly can't try to address the actual problem,
> >because it might be rude to do so. Thanks for clearing that up.
> >
> >
> >- d.
> >
> >
> On a similar topic, I would like to know if anyone has added "Wikipedia
> is not a counseling or rehabilitation centre" to [[WP:NOT]] yet. We're
> here to write an encyclopaedia, not deal with people who have issues,
> however deserving of our help and/or sympathy they may be. If they need
> help, the Befrienders, Alcoholics' Anonymous, and other such
> organisations are in /that/ direction.
>
> I don't believe people should attribute to insanity what can be
> attributed to ignorance or plain dickery, but when the insanity/problem
> is obvious, we shouldn't kid ourselves.
>
> John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_therapy
It's only an essay, but it says a lot.

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