handle in text it is not clear exactly what the alternative to this rfc proposal is or what a no or yes might yield so i will spell out what i see here as the best solution i agree with gamaliel and nomoskedasticity that this is a blp issue and that using filipino alone is utterly unacceptable and pov i do think filipino american correctly describes the subject of the article and is not an indication of citizenship but rather it is a demographic description which could accurately be used however per theredpenofdoom and markbernstein i think that this may be best handled as bbb and seb suggested and how the lead is now worded which is to not use either identifier in the first sentence but instead unpack it spell out in more detail the actual facts in an npov manner in the lead and in the rest of the article which the intro summarizes this works and does not take sides in the serious blp issue we further make clear how vargas self identifies which i think is important here without having wikipedia editors take a position as markbernstein said we are not required to indicate nationality or citizenship in the first sentence or anywhere and trpod is right about disclaimers etc sometimes it is best to go at it from a different angle we also had the same kind of issue at believe it or not bee gees where there were warring factions who disagreed about whether they should be called english australian or manx we handled it by leaving off the nationality and the wars stopped so i support this wording jose antonio vargas born february is a journalist filmmaker and immigration activist born in the philippines and raised in the united states from the age of he was part of the washington post team etc talk