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:I have worked on improving the citations, and published an update to the article. In case the citations still have to be worked upon, please specify how, in case it is not absolutely obvious. Your comment was helpful, though, and I do also personally agree in retrospect regarding the need for improvement of citations. I am fairly new to editing and building upon Wikipedia, so any advice and help is appreciated, especially if it is conducive to making my contributions valuable to Wikipedia, and in this case to the article being suitable for approval. Vasaras kruīzi Tallink (talk) 23:00, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi BlockArranger. Thank you for your work on Alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders. Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

{{Bq|1=Thanks for your careful crafting of this well-written article. You've spend some time working on it in draft, then moved it the main space at the right time. The only things that other editors and I have done since then is to add categories (helpful for finding articles), and moving the title to be consistent with MOS:AT. It's good to see that this alternative model has also had specific discussion in peer-reviewed sources, demonstrating its independent notability.}}

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Klbrain (talk) 18:04, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

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:Thank you for notifying me and for the feedback! BlockArranger (talk) 18:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the long overdue edits on Sam Vaknin. You have made a great, thoughtful, and thorough job.

Vaknin came up with additional concepts such as "sadistic supply" and "projective splitting", among many others. He also originated the new proposed diagnoses of "covert borderline" and "covert psychopath". Zorandimitrovskiskopje (talk) 07:40, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

:@Zorandimitrovskiskopje Covert Borderline is actually briefly mentioned in the article, I I am not mistaken, but yes, the text about his theories could be expanded. BlockArranger (talk) 11:10, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Regarding the citations: http://www.mediafire.com/file/3agfcor0gzgz04p/vakninisrael.zip Many media interviews here (most in Hebrew) about his time in Geneva, Paris, and New-York. I will do some digging. I distinctly remember an English-language article about his time in Geneva. I also remember a YT vid he made about he rejected his initial diagnosis in the 1980s.Zorandimitrovskiskopje (talk) 04:54, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

:@Zorandimitrovskiskopje Sure, it's good if you can find stuff there, but I sounds like it's still his own claims reported by several people and organizations. It would be good if we could get our hands on independent coverage of him. BlockArranger (talk) 14:59, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Ok. Found an English language article in a Geneva newspaper about his presence and activities there, so this is beyond doubt. Also, clips from many Israeli newspapers who interviewed him in all these locations (I am told by my translator friend). Actually, Vaknin made all these available on his CV in a zip file. Also found a video interview where he confirmed that he rejected his diagnosis.Zorandimitrovskiskopje (talk) 08:02, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

I want you to know that I really appreciate your edits on Vaknin.(talk) 13:32, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

:@Zorandimitrovskiskopje I am happy that my contributions are valued! BlockArranger (talk) 11:23, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Would just like to clarify a few things here. I did not have a lot of reliable sources to go by, but I had just enough to weasel out an somewhat good AFC. If you see claims or sentences and don't see a citation, don't assume its because I didn't place on there. Its likely because the entire paragraph, and potentially even section uses 1 single citation from a reliable source that you can find somewhere down the line. This is essentially my explanation for every "citation needed", "by whom", "who", "which" template that you placed on the article. I do not write unless I have a citation to back it up. Nonetheless I will still explain a few sections that you tagged with templates, as for the "Which" template, its any south east Asian border which is clarified later in the sentence. Friendly country (clarification needed template which you placed there) is already explained earlier in the article to be either Mongolia or the South East Asian countries. The By Whom template you placed in the brokers section is explained in the citation "https://www.bushcenter.org/freedom-collection/kim-seong-min-how-defectors-escape" or in the draft, Citation 8. Thank you. DotesConks (talk) 20:35, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

:For your information, I am trying to point out things you could clarify in your article. Sorry if you see it as rude, but you should cite more and write some things more clearly if you want the article to surely pass inspection. Also, I did not manage to find any claim of homosexuality being rare in Asia in the source provided immediately after that statement. I am not disputing factuality of most things, though. But please check if the math prodigy actually was selected for the "Olympics" several times, as the math olympiad is in fact not at all the same thing as the Olympic Games. BlockArranger (talk) 20:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

::@BlockArranger I don't think its rude, I think its helpful to my draft. I'm just clarifying how I write drafts and how that may be different from most people which leads to people thinking I do not have a lot of citations when I infact do. DotesConks (talk) 01:32, 14 April 2025 (UTC)