Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 08:55:17 -0700 (MST) From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net From today's newspaper: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/health/01care.html?ref=todayspaper "Creating positive emotional experiences diminishes distress and behavior problems."
Fred Bauder
Fred, surely you're not intending to compare Wikipedians with patients with Alzheimer's? That advice is about how to care for people with dementia, I think it would be more than a stretch to extrapolate from that to how our editing community should function.
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 08:55:17 -0700 (MST) From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net From today's newspaper: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/health/01care.html?ref=todayspaper "Creating positive emotional experiences diminishes distress and behavior problems."
Fred Bauder
Fred, surely you're not intending to compare Wikipedians with patients with Alzheimer's? That advice is about how to care for people with dementia, I think it would be more than a stretch to extrapolate from that to how our editing community should function.
The point is that kindness is good for anyone and everyone.
Fred