Talk:David I. Walsh

message: On May 6, 1942 The New York Post reported that Senator David Walsh (D-MA), Chair of the Senate Naval Intelligence Committee, was the Senator mentioned as a frequenter of the New York City male brothel raided by police earlier in the year.    --Kstern999 16:18, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NYP 

message: I have addressed the above issues which were pointed out to me when I requested peer review, at least to the extent that I care enough about Walsh to spend any more time on him.  Thanks to those who reviewed.
Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 20:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Addressed OR/POV

message: The sources for Walsh's homosexuality are FDR (in conversation with his VP and in conversation with the Senate Majority Leader) and Gore Vidal. The insinuating language of Attorney General Biddle would mean little without the word of FDR and Vidal, but it's interesting as an example of how the issue was dealt with in another age. Walsh's principal biographer (O'Toole) takes his subject's homosexuality as a given, and he's read the FBI files. If there were categories for "Closeted LGBT...", they would be more suitable, I suppose, but Walsh's homosexuality is, I think, beyond dispute.
Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 16:35, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Walsh disputed it. He was not self-identified. Span (talk) 03:36, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

text: I would say that it would be worth having a section or a para in the article discussing this - making it transparent that he disputed it and 'word of mouth' rumour suggested "everybody knew".  I think approaching it as a exposition of the historical context, rather than "making a case" one way or the other, would add to the article. Very little is "beyond dispute", historians are rarely "of one mind" for very long, it seems. WP policy is one thing, being careful is another. To my mind categories, like info boxes, are not much use at getting subtleties across. I try to use them with caution. If in doubt, I don't add, but that's me. Best wishes Span (talk) 10:39, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

text: I have now restored as well the categories that reflect Walsh's Catholicism, which is now documented. I note, however, that the standard you seek to impose, which Walsh happens to meet, is your standard and not necessarily an appropriate one for wikipedia. You said: "no source given for Catholic religious practice as an adult." Why "Catholic religious practice as an adult"? Whether a person went to Mass or not or made his Easter duty is probably not a suitable wikipedia standard. I think a more reasonable definition would be: "self-identified as a Catholic." I note that non-practicing Catholics are now one of the largest religious groups in the U.S. "Observant Catholics" would be a subcategory of Catholics. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 03:15, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  LGBT categories 

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