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

Mon Jun 5 13:35:42 UTC 2006

Selina . wrote:

>On 05/06/06, Katie the Obscure <nihthraefn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 6/5/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_therapy
>>It's only an essay, but it says a lot.
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>>niht-hræfn
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keitei
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_therapy?action=history
>As you can see it was written only about 2 months ago, ENTIRELY by Fred
>Bauder (see differences between his last edit and the most recent edit -
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_therapy?diff=48498374&oldid=45622959).
>It's his personal opinions, it's not policy at all.
>In fact it should probably be in his userspace.
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It's tagged as an essay for a reason.

John