During my writing of a post on WP NPOVN I noticed that this appears to be a prevailing precedent on Wikipedia In the Shooting of Trayvon Martin article Martin is described as a 17 year old African American high school student whereas Zimmerman is described as a 28 year old mixed race Hispanic man with a note detailing his ethnicity In the Shooting of John Crawford III article Crawford is described as a 22 year old African American man though the races of the officers are not specified anywhere in the article In the Shooting of Tamir Rice article Rice is described as a 12 year old African American boy though the races of the officers are not specified anywhere in the article In the Shooting of Akai Gurley article Gurley is described as a 28 year old African American man though the race of the officer was not explicitly specified anywhere in the article In the Shooting of Michael Brown article Brown is described as an 18 year old black man whereas Wilson is described as a white Ferguson police officer I could find more but you get the point Obviously this precedent has already been set and there is consensus in that respect and not only among the sources though I don t really think the latter consensus is meaningful to this discussion In your opinion do you believe I should pursue this issue by arguing to change this precedent Or no It seems rather futile at this point seeing as it s pretty deeply ingrained in Wikipedia I see the reason for it too though I wouldn t personally write it that way Maybe it s just my biases What do you think Should I go ahead and challenge this precedent on WP NPOVN or just drop it You ve been reasonable throughout this discussion although we disagree You were also the first to respond to my concerns So I ll leave it up to you though I suspect I already know your answer