[WikiEN-l] Psychosis and Wikipedia

[William Pietri]

Fred Bauder wrote:
> Most people with serious mental disorders are unable to keep it together enough to edit, or are disorganized but harmless. A small group is focused and disruptive. [...] It is important to be courteous, but to avoid entanglement.

I think this is very important advice, and too rarely followed.

 From my layman's perspective, a lot of these difficult kooks only 
really focus on contention. Not on disagreement or thwarting them as 
such, but the social signals of contention. Maintaining a friendly and 
helpful attitude while continuously disengaging can keep you in the 
99.9% of the world that they ignore.

William