[WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

[Fred Bauder]

> Fred Bauder wrote:
>> It is likely the reason he got into trouble was because he wasn't
>> confident that others would back him up, so he did it himself. Which
>> is,
>> of course, the third rail. What is missing is the knowledge that
>> sometimes, even if you are "right", others will not, for one reason or
>> another, not back you up and you will fail. And can't do anything about
>> it.
>>
>> Fred
>>
> IOW, Wikipedia isn't a suicide pact?
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

Ideally, Wikipedia is a life-long avocation.

Fred