Talk:Troye Sivan

To add to article

Basic information to add to this article: the fact that Sivan is this artist's (real) middle name, but used as his last name. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:05, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi! Sivan's full name is given at the very start of the article, so I've added a "known professionally as" note in the lead sentence. The article is not protected so you could have made that change yourself. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 07:13, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Jacob Bixenman

I'm curious why adding someone's dating history is considered "unencyclopedic" when vast numbers of celebrities on this website have dating histories included on their articles, indeed the text I added was nearly verbatim from Jacob Bixenman's own profile @Joeyconnick: Nevermore27 (talk) 23:42, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

In and of itself, who someone is dating at any giving point is not "lasting" information. It's gossip and/or "news". Does it impact the subject's overall course of life? Maybe if it leads to children or some kind of career-related collaboration, or to allegations of abuse, but otherwise who someone dated for X years in their 20s is irrelevant if we look back at them from the perspective of 20, 30, 40, or more years into the future. We aren't the entertainment press... we aren't concerned with people's private lives unless their private life somehow impacts their overall notability (or, as before, has some kind of formal/tangible impact on the course of their life). But just "they dated", he had a cameo in a video, and then (my fave part) they "reportedly" split—we don't report rumours even if the rest of the info were worthy of inclusion, which again... it isn't.

For instance, a good test: do you need to know anything about Jacob Bixenman to have a full, general layperson understanding of Troye Sivan and his career? No, you don't. Just because something happened and that something was recorded somewhere doesn't mean it's suitable for inclusion, per WP:INDISCRIMINATE.

As for what other articles have in them, well... that's Wikipedia for you. It's pretty common to be able to spin around and find any number of articles that aren't following guidelines. Just because, say, an article doesn't follow MOS:TV or WP:BLP doesn't mean that we can point to those articles and say, "Well they're doing it, so why can't we do in article X?" If that were a valid exercise, what would be the point of guidelines at all? —Joeyconnick (talk)

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"Mild" Marfan Syndrome

I'm dubious at the veracity of the terminology of "mild Marfan Syndrome." Given that Marfan Syndrome is genetic, there isn't a severity to it, more so to the presentation of its symptoms. Possibly a better way to phrase the quote from Sivan's Tumblr would be to note that Sivan self-describes his presentation of Marfan as being mild. As a note: I have Marfan Syndrome as well, and I also consider my presentation to be mild. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-79007-7 (talk) 01:28, 5 February 2026 (UTC)