Talk:Disappearance of Patrick McDermott

Ethnicity
Is anyone aware of McDermott's ethnic origins? His name sounds Irish, yet his appearance is somewhat Oriental.

That is still in doubt In the Wiki article its posted "McDermott is also half-Korean, and was adopted by an American couple from Korea." but i see there maybe some doubt to this as mentioned on this another website Wikipedia claims Patrick is half-Korean, but that has not been verified at this time. North American Missing Persons Network

--Boylo 09:11, 26 April 2007 (UTC) He looks half Korean. He is 5' 9 inches, suggesting he has some white ancestors.
 * Kim is a Korean name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.223.218 (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * There are Korean and Chinese men who tower over European men. Just because you believe all Asians are short doesn't speak to Patrick's own height whether he is 5', 2" or 6', 5".71.177.187.196 (talk) 21:18, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

His ethnicity may or may not be important, but I'm shocked at how presumptive the question is. Half Korean and half... What? Do we just assume Caucasian ancestry of some kind unless something else is specified? Looking into that racial can of worms is a nasty thing. --Wolfram.Tungsten (talk) 16:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * ..."oriental?"Paragon Deku (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Necessary?
Do we need this page? Surely the paragraph on the Olivia Newton-John page is enough.--Jack Upland (talk) 06:39, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

SOLVED missing persons case?
The article seems to imply that this is a solved missing persons case by placing a link to a list of such cases at the end. Yet l am not so sure. I will be convinced that this case is solved when either (a) McDermitt is found alive or (b) when his body is discovered. Jonbecker03 (talk) 15:23, 20 March 2021 (UTC)