Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Danah Boyd

Comment by Steve

Riana, thank you again for inviting me in, and I must apologize if
my reports of accusations of arrogance became accusations.  I do
believe that these accusations, while almost always unfounded, hurt
Wikipedia's reputation for neutrality and accuracy.  So I am somewhat
moved by an effort to remove fuel from this particular fire.

But there is another issue.  I must disagree, at least partially, with
the statement that "We are merely trying to tell ourselves how to
write her name."  We are also informing Wikipedia readers on how to
write her name.  In the case of a person who has made a significant
effort to inform people on how she prefers her name to be written, our
use of capitals in the article title informs our readers otherwise.
We cite newspaper articles that use upper-case, but newspaper writers
may check our page to see how her name is written, and may tend to use
the title (especially when coupled with our stylistic use of capitals
at the beginning of the article text) rather than follow the links to
see that she has stated a marked preference for another.  Thus, while
I can accept the current article text, I still believe the article
title should be renamed to lower-case.  -Dan Hoey 16:22, 7 September
2007 (UTC)