User talk:N8tegr8

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April 2020
- MrX 🖋 14:37, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Your edits to Addictive personality
I have reverted your undiscussed removal of large blocks of content from Addictive personality, which included content from reputable publishers such as the American Psychological Association, Psychology Today, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. This blanket removal is unjustified by the edit summaries, including one where an entire paragraph was removed with the edit summary, "Renamed to better reflect the content". Please discuss and obtain consensus before making large changes to longstanding content. BD2412 T 14:49, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

I do apologize for the large edit that was my fault. However, most of the information presented in these sections is not accurate. After doing much research using peer review studies and meta-studies as recommended per Wikipedia's guidelines, we have found that the general consensus within the academic community is that there is no set of traits the predisposes people for all types of addiction. The concept of the addictive personality is actually quite controversial. We have updated most areas to reflect this issue and correct any misconceptions. I will continue to remove these sections much slower with the proper edit summaries. Also, Psychology today is not a reputable source for this type of health and human subject article. If you would like to look at what my partner and I are working on, please check out our sandbox, which we have also linked on the talk page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:N8tegr8/AddictiveSandbox N8tegr8 (talk) 01:01, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * For changes of this scope, I would counsel that the better course of action would be to propose the changes on the talk page, and notice WP:Psychology. As for Psychology Today, my understanding is that it is a peer-reviewed publication, but I have no great concern for its inclusion if the community differs on that. Cheers! BD2412  T 01:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Psychology Today is a magazine and is not peer reviewed. This website says its reporting is highly factual, but the article in question only reflects the opinion of one person, albeit one with a PhD. If you read the psychology today article you'll find that what is written on the wiki page isn't actually found in the article, but rather it seems whoever made that addition made their own conclusions after reading the article and put the article as a source. Aupri (talk) 02:03, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I have posted the proposed changes in the talk page and I do appreciate your criticisms. The Wikipedia guidelines suggest that the majority of these sources do not meet the standards. I welcome any further feedback. Cheers!N8tegr8 (talk) 02:11, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Addictive personality—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 01:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)