In an earlier post, Tony Sidaway advocated an inclusive policy regarding autistic contributors.

This is a tough issue that many online communities have struggled with.

Autistic people often find themselves facing punitive measures in online communities because behaviors that result from their autism contravene community norms or formal community policies. Debate ensues, as it has here, over the extent to which the community should forebear from enforcing its norms and policies where violations stem at least in part from disability. In general, there is no satisfactory resolution of these matters because the principles of civility and inclusiveness are in conflict and most communities are unwilling to compromise either principle.

In deciding how to answer this difficult question for Wikipedia particularly, I believe it is important to bear our mission in mind. We are not a socal club. We are not a service organization. We are here to provide a free information resource to the world, and there are a great number of would-be contributors to that endeavor who we turn away every day because they are unable to further our goals, because they lack a sufficient combination of knowledge, writing ability, reasearch skills, and willingness to compromise. We should consider the contributions of autistic contributors in the same critical light in which we view the contributions of others.

Regarding such stubs as the "Big-eyed bug" and "Bloody-nosed Beetle," we neither suffer a shortage of such stubs nor a shortage of people who are willing to create more of them. Stubs are a resource that is both abundant and renewable, and it seems unlikely to me that the project will ever fall short of its goals due to a paucity of stubs. Our growth is limited by the number of people who are willing to organize facts, check references, research questionable assertions, and deal with community issues. And an overwillingness on our part to indulge uncivil contributors will risk alienating this rather more important group.

Writing skill and an ability to respect group norms are both (in U.S. regulatory parlance) essential requirements of the job.