On 05/06/06, Katie the Obscure nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/5/06, John Lee johnleemk@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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_therapy?action=histo... 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=4849837...). It's his personal opinions, it's not policy at all. In fact it should probably be in his userspace.