Talk:CeCé Telfer

Pronoun usage

User:175.223.45.2 has disputed the use of the female pronoun in this article to refer to the subject. Being MTF transgender, Telfer's pronoun should be "she" per MOS:GENDERID. However, since the subject of disputes relating to Telfer directly involve her gender, using her pronoun in some parts of the article could have the unintended consequence of implying that Wikipedia disagrees with Telfer's critics. I think that the preferred gender pronoun should be used in all sentences where needed except the sentences directly relating to disputes over Telfer's gender identity as a reasonable compromise between clarity and NPOV concerns raised by the editor. --Leugen9001 (talk) 17:36, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

MOS is perfectly good. Telfer is a woman, it is not a matter of dispute to use 'she', no need for special rules. Not using any pronouns looks like Wikipedia has taken a political position over an encyclopedic one. --Fæ (talk) 00:16, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

I have added a pronoun where it was awkward without it as a compromise between mos and the concerns of the IP user. Leugen9001 (talk) 01:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Pronouns should be used in accordance with traditional grammatical usage; i.e. "I", "he", and "she" traditionally refer to individual persons, and in a few instances, things; while "we" and "they" refer to more than one person. Typically the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person). 50.32.125.30 (talk) 00:05, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

To add to article

To add to this article: Telfer's given name prior to changing their gender. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 12:32, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

Per MOS:DEADNAME, we generally only include birth names in articles about living transgender or nonbinary people if the subject of the article was WP:NOTABLE under their birth name. Based on the current sources cited in this article, and the other coverage I've seen, Telfer does not seem to have been notable per Wikipedia standards under her birth name; therefore there is no reason to include it in the article. warmly, ezlev. talk 18:06, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

DEADNAME in this article

Tomruen, MOS:DEADNAME is a Wikipedia Manual of Style guideline which states that "In the case of a living transgender or non-binary person, the birth name should be included in the lead sentence only if the person was notable under that name... If such a subject was not notable under their former name, it usually should not be included in that or any other article, even if some reliable sourcing exists for it. Treat the pre-notability name as a privacy interest separate from (and often greater than) the person's current name." I recommend clicking the two wikilinks in the quoted text, which discuss the Wikipedia policies that "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information" and that "Wikipedia includes full names and dates of birth that have been widely published by reliable sources, or by sources linked to the subject such that it may reasonably be inferred that the subject does not object to the details being made public." Combined with the MOS guideline, I think it's fairly clear that Telfer's birth name should not be included in this article. I haven't removed it because I have no interest in edit warring, and I'd like there to be consensus on this. warmly, ezlev. talk 18:31, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Crazy-making. A simpler solution would seem to ban ridiculous bio-articles that suppress basic details about why a person is notable now, but was not before. Tom Ruen (talk) 19:14, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

• Delete - This person is not notable outside of a single controversy. At best could be mentioned at Transgender_people_in_sports. Biographies should be reserved for public people who are more than symbols for a cultural war. Tom Ruen (talk) 22:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Wind Resistance

In the article is a statement: "Telfer explained that her height, which is 6' 2", put her at a disadvantage as her size gives her wind resistance". The event Telfer runs is the 400 meter hurdles. Since the 400 is a complete circuit of a standard track, wind resistance doesn't play a role because any "hurting" wind in one part of the circuit, will become a helping wind in the opposite part of the circuit. As much as wind resistance might be a disadvantage for Telfer in running one direction, it will be that much more of an advantage (because of her height) while running the opposite direction. Wind resistance is only officially measured in the 100, 200, and broad jump because of the singularity of direction when running or making the approach. Would it be appropriate to add this as an annotation to her statement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianjgolfer (talk • contribs)

I don't think an annotation would be appropriate, ‎Brianjgolfer. I've changed "explained" to "stated" in the article to make it clear that this is a statement attributed to Telfer and not just an explanation of commonly accepted fact, but it would be original research to assemble an argument refuting her statement from unrelated sources. ezlev^tlk
_ctrbs 22:22, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

First sentence of "Personal life" section

Pinging FactFinder1492. Please be sure to read the messages I left on your talk page, and I encourage you to consider discussing the change you want to make here instead of edit warring on the article itself. For discussion:

• Current sentence wording: Tefler was born in Jamaica and assigned male at birth.
• Wording in FactFinder1492's edits: Tefler was born a male in Jamaica.

- ezlev^tlk
_ctrbs 18:15, 26 April 2021 (UTC)