Talk:Patty Larkin

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[edit] sexual orientation

Earlier when this article was included in two new categories, "Lesbian musicians" and "LGBT people from the United States", I reverted the edit simply because it was unsourced. Although a fan of Ms. Larkin, I had missed that particular fact about her and thought that it should require a source before placing it there; after all, there is a difference between "out" and "outed".

Sources were provided, but now it simply a statement in the article, "She is openly lesbian". I have no problem with that fact, but is the statement itself germane to the article? It seems to be irrelevant to the rest of the article, and should either be elaborated upon as to its particular importance, integrated into another portion of the article to define its relevance to her music, or removed. As is, it seems like a trivia factoid.

-- Couillaud (talk) 16:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it's sort of a hanging factoid. This is not to say it's unimportant, but any long-time fan of Larkin might not have any idea about her sexual orientation, as it doesn't seem to be a subject of her songwriting or any of her public conversation. I'm still fine with the article's categorization, but unless there's at least a second and third sentence to add about this, I don't think it's relevant. Mitchell k dwyer (talk) 18:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Then until such time as someone can come up with something specific (like it being a large influence on her art or part of her political activism), it should be treated as a "hanging factoid" (I like that term, much better than my own "trivia factoid"), and I have moved the reference to External links (it's a good review of Red=Luck) and removed the single sentence. -- Couillaud (talk) 19:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I think that was a good call. -MrFizyx (talk) 16:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)