Talk:Will Morefield

Grindr finder
Just a reminder to all editors that the current "scandal" involves a journalist who wrote an article about an unnamed Virginia Republican state legislator being found on Grindr, following which amateur internet sleuths speculated that the clues pointed to Morefield — but that is not the standard of proof that Wikipedia requires to include it in our article about him. Like it or not, Wikipedia is not a venue for the forced outing of closeted LGBT people, especially when the evidence is still purely circumstantial — the standard we require on here, in a biography of a living person, is not "alleged to be gay in internet comment threads", but "can be reliably sourced as having come out as LGBT". We are not interested in unverifiable details about a person's private personal life; when it comes to public figures, we are interested in LGBTness only insofar as the person identifies themselves politically, socially and culturally with the LGBT community.

And just to be clear, I'm an openly gay editor who fully supports the outing of closeted gay figures who maintain a public stance of anti-LGBTness — but Wikipedia is not the venue for it. If the unnamed Grindr prowler really is Morefield, then it's the media's job to collar him on that — it is not our job to participate in a blogsourced doxxing pile-on that is still purely speculative at this time. I see from this article's edit history that even the journalist who wrote the original article has taken it upon himself to remove the claim that he identified Morefield as the subject — so if even he's not going on the record with that assertion, then it's even more critical that Wikipedia doesn't jump ahead of the properly sourceable facts. Bearcat (talk) 17:33, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Image
The current image is File:Morefield_Official_photo1.jpg, but its source is Mr. Morefield's own (campaign) website, thus the copyrighted-free-to-use license that the image page displays, is dubious. - Mardus /talk 16:56, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
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