[WikiEN-l] Could we tone down the language a bit?

[James Hare]

Yeah, and I'm not happy that people are clearly being idiots and instead of
being understanding you're all

"LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL STUPID IDIOT ROFLMAO GAHAHA GO BACK
TO MYSPACE"

Which is very unprofessional and gives all of us a bad image and makes God
kill a kitten.

Remember, though, I have 1,000,000,000-year contract to serve Wikimedia so I
won't leave over this. It'd be stupid thing to leave over, though.

On 1/10/07, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006 at dpbsmith.com> wrote:
>
> Someone on this mailing recently started a thread:
>
> > Subject: [WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.
> >
> > I'd love to see some psychology-oriented individual do a case study
> > on what
> > kind of people are attracted to editing on Wikipedia.  What
> > psychological
> > defects lurk behind the computer screens and the keyboards.
>
> Could we please, please, _please_ try to tone down some of the use of
> wildly exaggerated language and hype in this mailing list?
>
> Psychosis means "A severe mental disorder, with or without organic
> damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of
> contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social
> functioning."
>
> As in schizophrenia.
>
> It does _not_ mean a difficult person, a jerk, a bastard, an arrogant
> adolescent, etc. Nor does it mean a person obsessed with an ideology
> and a pitbull determination to inflict it on everyone.
>
> I'm no psychologist, but in my fifteen years as a USENET participant,
> I have perhaps _twice_ seen postings that I thought might, in fact,
> actually have been made by someone suffering from schizophrenia. I
> have yet to see anything similar on Wikipedia.
>
> Words _do_ have meanings.
>
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