Talk:List of mental disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR

I have retitled and cleaned up this page
Well people, it has happened. It had to happen someday, and I had a few days off, so I decided to do it.

I have retitled DSM-IV codes to List of mental disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR. The reason is obvious: there is no such thing as a DSM code. The codes featured in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR are ICD-9-CM codes. Except for Appendix H, which has the ICD-10 codes.

The fact that this page has existed since 2005, yet no one ever thought of fixing its name, speaks volumes of Wikipedian interest in the areas of psychiatry and psychology.

This page had been neglected for so long, it even still had these "Top" links at the end of every section. I almost can't believe that. Having such anchor links on your website was hip in the 1990s and early 2000s. They are basically fossils!

I actually wanted to clean up this page years ago, but I knew that a bunch of Wikipediots would have the page deleted at some point. My prediction was proven correct in 2020, when it was decided to delete the entire ICD-10 from Wikipedia!! See here for the AfD. The cited reason was copyright, and the general assumption that Wikipedia shouldn't be a dictionary. Both are policies that I am very happy to ignore when it comes to the ICD and the DSM. If the WHO or the APA would send DMCA takedown requests to Wikipedia... fine, then we delete the pages. But I honestly doubt they would bother.

What the deletionist morons overlooked was that, aside from the ICD-10, Wikipedia also features the ICD-9; see List of ICD-9 codes. To this day, no one thought of deleting that. Of course, they undoubtedly would the moment they spot it.

I am actually surprised that this particular DSM-IV[-TR] page escaped the attention of the compulsive pro-copyright users for so many years. But it will one day be deleted. So then why would I even care about it? I honestly don't know. Maybe it will stand a few more years, maybe it will be removed in few more weeks. We'll see. This is an important historical document, describing a classification system which many humans were involved with, and to this day still are involved with, for better or for worse. This is important information, and Wikipedia should document it. Alas, some Wikipedians think rules are more important. - Manifestation (talk) 17:33, 24 March 2024 (UTC)