User talk:Dalinian

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Bipolar disorder
Hi, Dalinian, and welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you're up to "C" right now in your list of people with bipolar disorder--maybe this would be a good time to pause and check the reactions to what you've already done before you plow all the way through your list. Cheers. P. R IIS 16:00, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi. In response to your query on my talk page, I applaud your stated effort to "help de-stigmatise bipolar disorder". What I take issue with is some of the details of how you've recently been editing some of the articles. I'm not sure of adding almost identical text to many articles; that is not commonly done, and perhaps you could get other people's opinions on that question. Your specific text I do take specific issue with. For example, on the Buzz Aldrin article, you said "Many attribute some of Buzz Aldrin’s extraordinary abilities to his being affected by bipolar disorder". Who, exactly make such attributions? Are there specific ways in which Adrin was better (or markedly different) in his career of being an aviator and astronaut from his colleges without bipolar disorder? If you think your text belongs in those articles, you should be prepared to answer such questions.

Links between creativity and bipolar disorder is already mentioned in the bipolar disorder article, and no doubt more discussion could be added. I do not object to adding a category "People with Bipolar Disorder" to articles on people who have been so diagnosed. However as there seem to have been great and acomplished poets, composers, astronauts, etc both with and without bipolar disorder, I don't much like what seems a blanket attribution of a significant portion of their talent to the disorder for everyone with it. Adding details about how having bipolar affected Buzz Aldrin, Baudelaire, Berlioz, etc to their respective articles would certainly be a larger and more time consuming task than adding some boilerplate text, but IMO would be a much more useful contribution to the encyclopedia. I hope this explains my objections to some of your edits. Best wishes, -- Infrogmation 18:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)