[WikiEN-l] Psychosis and Wikipedia

[Fred Bauder]

It's real simple really. Imagine you are visiting a mental hospital and your business takes you to the "violent ward". The reason you are trusted to enter is recognition that you will not start or aggravate problems. We have a few "normal" users who are not so skilled.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Pietri [mailto:william at scissor.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 05:57 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychosis and Wikipedia
>
>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
>
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