Talk:Mikey Walsh

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Poor mental health and social anxiety disorder
The article said the subject has poor mental health and social anxiety disorder which is a reduced version of the older claim it "makes him reclusive and known to avoid public appearances because of it" [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mikey_Walsh&diff=1056840413&oldid=1055583696]. At BLPN someone claimed the sources don't support this and I agree. I'm only able to access the first two. One of them is the Mirror so shouldn't be used on a BLP at all, but putting that aside neither seem to mention his mental health nor make any claims he has social anxiety disorder. The quotes from them added do this article don't support the claim. Someone "wishing to keep his true identity a secret" due to concerns about people's views of their book does not necessarily have either poor mental health nor social anxiety disorder. Likewise someone not wishing to be photographed due to fears it may be dangerous to them. And someone wishsto be a skeletor cannot be taken as demonstrating either of these either. Since I don't have access to the third source, it's possible it does support the claims in some other way but if this is the case an editor need to provide relevant quotes given the strong doubts raised by the existing quote and the other 2 sources. Nil Einne (talk) 22:46, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --Charmainetstone93 (talk) 21:17, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

vandalism on this page. vandalism from user Thurlow0391 this user has deleted Many cited links and then put in a request for deletion after they removed all provable and relevant links to subject. reputable and frequent malicious edits — Preceding unsigned comment added by Charmainetstone93 (talk • contribs)

Being interviewed
, since you seem interested in improving the article, perhaps you might look into the two interviews mentioned in the article and see if there is any actual information in those interviews that could be added to the article? Interviews are sources, not accomplishments, and not worth mentioning. Schazjmd  (talk)  22:29, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

COI tag
No fewer than two editors have held themselves out as being the subject of the article. Accordingly, I've put a COI tag on the article pending more review from independent editors. —C.Fred (talk) 02:18, 6 June 2022 (UTC)


 * What needs to be updated in the film section? Looks reasonably uptodate to me (last year). Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:32, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Politicalite should probably not cited at all, as I said in this January discussion at BLPN. I don't mean that Politicalite fabricated Walsh's statement, but it lacks journalistic standards. I removed the source in January, but it was restored in the latest flurry of events. When Update section was added to the section, that source was not in the article. Politrukki (talk) 10:46, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I have looked over page and that the cited links check out fine and add up to very basic information on the subject and it not biased, apart from some cited links that are from news orgs that are online only and not mainstream press, it all checks out ok. The only conflict of interest seems to be someone who has a personal negative opinion of the subject and maliciously targeted the page with a lot of deletion of cited information based on personal opinion. Brodiebear666 (talk) 17:44, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Not a pseudonym
I am a WP:VRT agent who has been contacted by the subject of this article. He provided proof of identity and name. His actual legal name is "Mikey Walsh". Edits such as this, labeling the name as a pseudonym without citing a source, is a violation of our policy Biographies of living persons. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:44, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I have accordingly removed Dwight Garner's "Fighters and Lovers, All Misunderstood" from the New York Times Books section as a source, as it contains the assertion. For a link outside the paywall, which is claimed to have been retrieved in 2022, see . —C.Fred' (talk) 17:39, 8 June 2022 (UTC)