Talk:Attack on Reginald Denny

message: Racial categories are capitalized throughout this article, a very recent change in line with the updated styles used by a number of news outlets. Capitalization of 'Black' and especially 'White' (the latter used only by the Washington Post among major American news outlets, as far as I am aware) is a highly contentious issue, and the trend to capitalization is politically charged. It is strongly associated with the American left, and the terms 'white' and 'black' were not capitalized by any major news outlets until just months ago. Capitalization of these terms is inconsistent in the 1992 LA riots article. It doesn't seem sensible to me to retroactively capitalize these words on old articles about older topics, but I don't want to revert this change here or elsewhere without input from others. Contemporaneous usage of these words at the time of the LA riots was for them to not be capitalized, and since the terms (unlike older terms for black Americans) are not considered offensive, I would consider capitalization in this case to be misleading and arguably constitute a revisionist history of the events.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blocky1OOO (talk • contribs) 19:39, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Changing capitalization is not the same as revisionism where facts are changed. I can't help you in that this appears to be the new trend. Life changes. MartinezMD (talk) 21:32, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization of 'white' and 'black' 

message: Denny's age has been reported as 36 or 39, depending on the source (there are several for both). It looks like that is what is causing a minor edit war. Please adjust accordingly, unless we can find a definite source that can refute the other. MartinezMD (talk) 00:34, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denny's age 

message: Why are we deadnaming Zoey Tur exactly? What is the point of mentioning that someone (an extremely minor figure in this article no less) no longer wishes to go by a certain name (to the point of legally changing it) in this context? It doesn't seem relevant at all to me and is in fact offensive (at the least), especially to Zoey herself, so I was just curious. Bill Lumbergh (talk) 15:53, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable source that reports that Tur objects to it? The article for Zoey Tur also gives the former name. I'm unclear where the "transphobia" is in this. We go by reliable sources. Period.  cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 22:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: MOS:GENDERID says,  We should default to using Tur's current name unless we know they prefer otherwise for events before their transition. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 02:44, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Under the same section MOS:GENDERID, it says "If they were notable under the name by which they were credited for the work or other activity, provide it in a parenthetical or footnote on first reference" so, as an example, 1976 Summer Olympics says "Caitlyn Jenner[a] won the gold medal for decathlon," where "a" is the explanatory note that says simply "Then known as Bruce Jenner.". That would be the correct way to address this under current WP policy. MartinezMD (talk) 04:34, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deadnaming 

message: To Gene Stanley1: you are making an allegation that the US has an established white supremacy. I, and I suspect most WP editors, will dismiss that on its face. That's why I reverted your edit. MartinezMD (talk) 01:04, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted edits