On 10/12/05, Mark Pellegrini mapellegrini@comcast.net wrote:
I think it's a dangerous and foolhardy endeavor to single out autistic contributors for special treatement - which is, after all, what most of this discussion about autism entails.
Not really. Just not gangbanging new editors in the manner that Maoririder and Wiki brah have been.
They're obviously different in some way, we could say they're "Martian" or "Weird" if that makes you feel better.
They've both produced good work from day one, but they were both pillored and blocked for utterly petty reasons very early on in their editing.
Is this the kind of community Wikipedia should be? I thought we were better than that, or had aspirations to be. Why are we alienating good editors?