Talk:Thandiwe Newton

message: Should this page be moved to Thandiwe Newton, as this is her preferred name?  Owen (talk) 03:57, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a bit of a tricky situation, as since she kept Thandie as her name for so long it's now her common name. There'll be a point in the future when Thandiwe becomes that, but it's not now. Rusted AutoParts 04:00, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

text: As noted below, NAMECHANGES takes precedent. Rusted AutoParts 17:46, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Her new name has been declared in Deadline, People, Vogue, W, Entertainment Weekly, Sky News, News.com.au, the Telegraph, Entertainment Tonight and the Guardian. I didn't even bother to check if there was a discussion here before I moved the page. Feel free to change it back if you think it's justified. State your reasons here first please. Kire1975 (talk) 10:03, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I believe we should refer to people by their preferred name, and I believe that is Wikipedia standard as well. Canterbury Tail talk 13:48, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

text: WP:NAMECHANGES is the relevant policy. Reliable sources written after the announcement indeed refer to her with w, so I find the move justified. Nardog (talk) 14:03, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, that's what I was looking for. Canterbury Tail talk 17:23, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

text: It's pretty normal to go back and update them all for these kind of situations with movies etc. It's pretty common to get an actor who was billed as one name at one time and then as another name at a later date, and then go back and update all the older articles to the same name. If there is a really good reason to do so, you can also used "(billed as XXX)" beside them once the name is updated. In this case the billing name is changing so minorly, I don't see any issues with just straight updating it. Canterbury Tail talk 23:59, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thandiwe 

message: The article lead states this originated in a misspelling of her name, Thandiwe, in the credits of her first film, but in the Early life section it's stated that she chose to be known as "Thandie", the implication- following the statement about being aware of not fitting in- being that the intention was to simplify or modify her name due to being brought up in England.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.173.147 (talk) 21:41, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The Vogue interview source gives both "Thandiwe and her younger brother attended a Catholic primary school run by joyless nuns, where she was once excluded from a class photograph for sporting cornrows and made to feel like an in-house missionary project, and where the W of her name drifted inward, out of sight and earshot, in a futile hope to make her feel less different" and, later, "All her future films will be credited with Thandiwe Newton, after the W was carelessly missed out from her first credit." Even if, at the time of her first credit, she had chosen to be credited as "Thandiwe" and an error was indeed made (odd that it should be exactly the name she had previously gone by in her youth?), the fact that she had of her own volition been "Thandie" means the emphasis on the credit error seems strange.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.173.147 (talk) 21:45, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: "Thandie"

message: I've been looking via search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc., and from what I've been seeing, there has been no official confirmation that Thandiwe and Ol Parker are actually separated. Various sites like The Daily Mail, The Sun, etc. have said that they are separated, but such information was given by an anonymous source. Neither Thandiwe nor Ol have actually confirmed it, nor have their respective representatives. Heck, on Ol Parker's Wikipedia page, he's still listed as being married to Thandiwe, and both of their respective IMDb pages still list them as being married to each other, as of this post. Should Thandiwe really be listed as "separated" in her infobox if there's been no official confirmation of a separation? Lbmouschi (talk) 07:43, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separation officially confirmed? 

message: Recent edits have changed Newton's birthplace from London to Zambia. There are sources that give her country of birth as Zambia. This interview clarifies that she was born in London while her parents were visiting there, but that they were normally resident in Lusaka, Zambia at the time. A record of her birth in Westminster is available here. This being the case, I'm reverting the article to reflect this information. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 18:06, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Jean. Thanks for finding those sources. But note that this existing source clearly says she was born in Zambia. Should we still be using that one? 205.239.40.3 (talk) 08:37, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we can safely remove that source: it doesn't provide anything that isn't already covered by other sources, though the same paragraph does clarify that her birthplace is sometimes incorrectly given as Zambia. I think a cleanup of the references in that paragraph would make sense, but I'd value input from other editors before I jump in and make changes. Jean-de-Nivelle (talk) 10:35, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace again