[WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

[Fred Bauder]

Obviously toilet training is involved. That is the source of the anal
personality. Need a study of toilet training of future editors...

Fred

> Some recent musings reminded me that I never did find a good answer
> for an old question of mine: does anything predict whether an editor
> will lean towards deletionism?
>
> More specifically, it seems to me that attitudes towards articles take
> on almost emotional or moral dimensions, perhaps related to various
> psychological factors. Does anyone remember ever seeing any research
> touching on this? For example, perhaps someone surveyed editors,
> asking for self-identified preference and doing an inventory measuring
> personality factors like the OCEAN/Big Five? Of course I checked
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia
> and Google but nothing particularly germane appears to have popped up
> besides random speculation and analogies to Adorno's famous
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality
>
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