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

[John Lee]

David Gerard wrote:

>Karl A. Krueger wrote:
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>>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.
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>[snip long post not addressing the point at all]
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>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.
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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.

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