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A Wikipedia widow [WP:WID] is the spouse of a Wikipedian who has neglected his or her spousal duties in some significant way thus causing the spouse to feel widowed in a metaphorical sense. The Wikipedian in no way intended for this to happen but it just crept up and took over. There is a probably branch of behavioral science about to emerge to address all of this but it does not yet appear in the scientific literature. hydnjo talk 02:42, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Some of the more obvious symptoms of this condition are:
Please add your observations quickly before this article goes to Archive Heaven ;-) hydnjo talk 04:30, 4 September 2005 (UTC)