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borderline personality disorder

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I happened to notice this diff added two claims of borderline personality disorder, but also that the account which made them was since blocked for abuse. Since this is a featured article, it would be best if this was double-checked. --Joy (talk) 21:07, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The two sources look ok to me. One is an article in a refereed journal published for a national professional association. The other is a specialist book by a reputable psychiatrist (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/joan-lachkar-obituary?id=37010767) which is in the Internet Archive; although it is not fully available there at the moment and I haven't been able to check the page cited. Errantios (talk) 11:27, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kafka's letters in Czech

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In the sentence, "All of Kafka's published works were written in German, with the exception of a number of letters he wrote in Czech to his contemporary Milena Jesenská," I deleted the phrase after the comma, for a couple of reasons. The phrase "published works" is ordinarily read to mean works intended for publication, which the letters Kafka wrote to Milena were not, because they were personal letters, and personal letters aren't "works." The fact that Kafka became famous and his letters were published decades after his death doesn't make them "published works" in the ordinary sense of the term. Also, Kafka must have written personal letters in Czech to people other than Milena. To claim that those to Milena were the only ones written in Czech would require examination of every letter Kafka wrote that has been published, and, again, the fact that a letter has been published doesn't make it a "published work" or even a "work."

I will also add "[citation needed]" to the sentence that follows: "What little was published during his lifetime attracted scant public attention." How much is "scant"? Maurice Magnus (talk) 02:58, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As the person who only edited the sentence in question to sound better, I don't mind. Something to note is that the first time the letters were published, it was apparently in german. Vtipoman (talk) 11:05, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(talk) Letters to Milena does not state that Kafka wrote the letters in Czech, and it should; it states merely that they were originally published in German. Do you have a source that says that Kafka wrote them in Czech? I'll check out the English translation to see it if says that (but I can't do that for a few days). Maurice Magnus (talk) 13:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll try and find one and get back to you, I'm quite curious myself. That said, I'm no expert at sourcing, I mostly do typos, fixing weird sentences and such. Vtipoman (talk) 18:37, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a direct quote on this, but the majority of (if not all) the surviving correspondence Kafka wrote to Milena seems to be in German. I've been able to find a website with their digitized contents, hosted under the University of Vienna (just delete the end of the URL). The website also has letters he did write to other people in Czech (example, search "Milý" for some more), but everything from him to Milena is in German (with a Czech word or phrase seldom thrown in) – search her name for that. I'd post the URLs for the searches directly, but Wikipedia doesn't seem to like them. Vtipoman (talk) 18:47, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, here are the pages for the relevant years, everything labelled "Brief an Milena" (letter), "Kartenbrief an Milena" (card-letter?), "Ansichtkarte an Milena" (postcard) and "Postkarte an Milena" (also postcard?) is what we're interested in:
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924
Might be easier than having to search them up. Vtipoman (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(talk) I hadn't checked your addition to this thread until just now, but I'd already added a sentence to Letters to Milena (the second sentence). Maurice Magnus (talk) 21:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]