Hans Asperger

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Hans Asperger

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:10 am

A link sent to me by a friend who was a bit shocked:
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volu ... ger-expose

From my response:
Of course there was an ugly little battle over Asperger's history on his Wikipedia article. Because Wikipedia is full of people on the "spectrum", any disparagement of a "great expert" in the field inevitably leads to edit-warring. Even if you have reliable sources. Two people in 2006 asked about it on the talkpage and were ignored. The first person who tried to mention it seriously, in 2012, was instantly attacked by two notorious Wiki pests. At that time Asperger's article was completely positive and "free of substantial detail". Especially about his Nazi ties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hans_Asperger

The autism-related content on Wikipedia was mostly written by people "on the spectrum" themselves anyway, so it may or may not be "neutral". Ask me about "SandyGeorgia" sometime.
PS, why do we keep seeing the name Anthonyhcole in noticeboard and talkpage fighting, circa 2010-2016? He's almost given up on Wikipedia as of this year. Was it the chronic pain; or the many enemies he made on WP by being such a stupid pedant?

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