Talk:Addictive personality

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Citations

There are presently no citations, but there are lots of claims! jrun (talk) 10:39, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. And also what are all those stuff in parentheses throughout the article ? Like ("Addiction/Addictive Personality") or (Eng) ? Wawawemn (talk) 19:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh OK I just realized what's going on, those are supposed to be the citations. Maybe someone with more Wikipedia-editing knowledge can fix the citations? Otherwise I'll do it as soon as I find the enough time to learn how.Wawawemn (talk) 19:23, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

So no one here (including me) knows how to do inline citations? lol, we're I bright bunch ;-p I'll try to learn the notation method soon. I feel embarrassed for editing but not inderstanding how an essential formatting like citations work. jrun (talk) 23:58, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The sources also seem to be disreputable, one of them is an encyclopedic entry and the others would appear to be non peer reviewed articles. Better sources would be a good jumping off point for a rewrite of this article. 67.171.37.245 (talk) 07:42, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

Could someone please clean up this article and make citations inline? Either that or put it back in a sandbox... Please? jrun (talk) 18:14, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Link to mental illnesses

Are people with particular mental illnesses e.g. bipolar disorder significantly more likely to have addictive personalities? 188.29.103.8 (talk) 16:36, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Editing

We are college students in an introductory psychology class working on editing different psychology articles as a part of the WikiProject Psychology group. We plan to improve the addictive personality article by add inline citations and improve the content of the article. We hope to improve this article to the best of our ability and help people become more aware of what an addictive personality is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cammy.carlson1 (talk • contribs) 21:59, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Revision Proposals

Our group, upon Wikipedia’s request, is going to edit the in-text citations and citations in general. In hopes of doing this, it will make the article, “Addictive Personality,” more credible. Wikipedia has also requested that there should be more links between addictive personality and mental illnesses. We plan on constructing several paragraphs on mental illnesses that relate to addictive personality traits. In hopes of doing this, it will satisfy what Wikipedia is asking for. Another concept that we are going to edit is everything that Wikipedia already has in the article by researching the already provided information and adding more substance and credibility. For example, we will add more information on symptoms, common forms of addictiveness, and long-term treatment. We will also expand on the concepts of addictive personality and cell phone usage. In addition to those edits, we are going to incorporate different forms of addictive personalities to make others aware that addictive personalities do not just include drug and alcohol addictions. We are going to research other specific types of addictions and relate it to addictive personality traits, such as addictive tanning and social networking. In hope of doing this, we want to make the public more aware of addictive personality in its entirety.Mcarey15 (talk) 01:18, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

While I read this article, there is just one thing I got a little confused about. What does the (Eng) mean? Maybe try and clarify or maybe I just missed something. I don't know if it was a reference? Is this the same thing that is happening with (Nelson) and everything else that is in parentheses? I see that you guys are trying to work on the citations, and is that what the (Nelson) is? Just giving credit, but not making it into the footnote? And if it is try and find that source, or one similar that says the same thing? Other wise great work!