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

[Carcharoth]

If you want anecdotal evidence, I would say that someone's first
encounter with AfD can set them firmly in one place on the spectrum,
but that most people who stick around see their views evolve as they
come to understand sources and the range of articles topics and
various problems better. Whether there is an underlying
predisposition, I don't know. I hope this was more helpful than the
other replies you received! :-)

On 4/13/13, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> gwern
> http://www.gwern.net
>
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>