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|quote=As a professor of electrical engineering who contributed a great deal to WP, I would like to suggest that the members of the APS have a rather unique function to play there. My experience with WP has been fine on very technical matters, but on subjects with popular appeal there are very active and peculiar Talk page discussions that in my case led to eventual expulsion from WP. My take is that there are some rather [[Disturbed character|disturbed individuals]] that run WP via ArbCom and the cadre of Administrators. I wonder if possibly APS members will be able to devise a useful method to deal with this major defect of WP, which I suspect indeed will raise its head.

|quote=As a professor of electrical engineering who contributed a great deal to WP, I would like to suggest that the members of the APS have a rather unique function to play there. My experience with WP has been fine on very technical matters, but on subjects with popular appeal there are very active and peculiar Talk page discussions that in my case led to eventual expulsion from WP. My take is that there are some rather [[Disturbed character|disturbed individuals]] that run WP via ArbCom and the cadre of Administrators. I wonder if possibly APS members will be able to devise a useful method to deal with this major defect of WP, which I suspect indeed will raise its head.

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*Minimization

*'''Minimization/Minimizing'''. The manipulators use this tactic to convince victims and others that something manipulators did that was evidently wrong really wasn’t as bad as one might think. When being confronted about their wrongdoing, manipulartors would claim victims are making a big deal of nothing or exaggerating or overreacting.<ref>{{cite book |title=30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships |author=Adelyn Birch |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |year=2015 |chapter=3. 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics |pages=23 |isbn= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Jz7jgEACAAJ}}</ref> 

*'''Lying''' refers to situation when a speaking person is using language aiming to deliberately portray reality in discrepancy with its actual status. Cunning form of lying is manipulation as type of social influence when a manipulator wants, without being noticed as doing so, to change the way other people think, behave, or act. In order to achieve this, he associates terms, in reality representing one thing, with false labels that try to make appearance of term as if being other thing. When this technique is used by politicians or [[pressure group]]s  promoting their own self-serving agendas, we speak about [[propaganda]].<ref name="Kuby">{{cite book

*'''Lying''' refers to situation when a speaking person is using language aiming to deliberately portray reality in discrepancy with its actual status. Cunning form of lying is manipulation as type of social influence when a manipulator wants, without being noticed as doing so, to change the way other people think, behave, or act. In order to achieve this, he associates terms, in reality representing one thing, with false labels that try to make appearance of term as if being other thing. When this technique is used by politicians or [[pressure group]]s  promoting their own self-serving agendas, we speak about [[propaganda]].<ref name="Kuby">{{cite book

|author=Gabriele Kuby

|author=Gabriele Kuby