User talk:Lauralex

Is the Times-Picayune story misquoting you? --jpgordon:==( o ) 18:46, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

My quote (whatever it was- I will find out soon) was taken out of context by the media and parroted endlessly which is how this matter of health insurance wound up on the wikipedia entry. Regardless of whether I was misquoted or not, I do not think this matter of health insurance belongs in the wikipedia entry on Alex Chilton. If people want to use his identity to bring up the issue of lack of health insurance in the United States, I can't prevent that. However, I can assert my right not to have my name associated with what I believe to be misleading, as well as irrelevent, "information" that has little to do with his life and death. Lauralex (talk) 15:44, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. Thanks; I can understand your position, and I'll see what can be worked out. --jpgordon:==( o ) 20:31, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

jpgordon, thank you! I feel a little less misanthropic now- thanks again.

Laura Chilton

Lauralex (talk) 15:24, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Just a quick note to say that I don't think anyone on Wikipedia was using Alex's case to highlight the current debate over health insurance in the US - I didn't even consider it until I read this page (I'm not from the US). That may well have been the intention of the journalist(s) who misquoted you though... I've been discussing it on the talk page, and my main concern was simply that if the quote had been accurate and it had come from you as Alex's wife, then I thought it was relevant to the article. I would hope that anything you did say would have been considered relevant! It wasn't me that added that info in the first place, by the way, and I see that the editor who did add it has done practically nothing else on Wikipedia before or since. I hope you're happy with it as it stands. Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:40, 3 September 2010 (UTC)