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 > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l