Talk:Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon

Bruce Jenner
Please stop editing Caitlyn Jenner as the winner of the gold medal in decathlon. The official Olympic website has the winner as Bruce Jenner. Until the official results are changed, the medal was won by Bruce Jenner.104.254.95.106 (talk) 16:23, 3 June 2015 (UTC)


 * It's policy to use the current name for transgender individuals, not their past name. Continuing to make such edits is likely to lead to your being blocked from editing. Skyerise (talk) 16:35, 3 June 2015 (UTC)


 * It's pretty bad form of you to threaten IPs with blocking for perfectly legitimate edits. You're being quite disruptive,, in making edits to topics while a discussion in under way (one which you've participated in). If anyone's going to get a block, it's you, if you keep this up. &#161;Bozzio&#33; 16:39, 3 June 2015 (UTC)


 * It's a WP:BLP violation and they should be blocked. Skyerise (talk) 16:40, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You're being disruptive. Quite while you're ahead. You know full well this is under discussion, leave it. &#161;Bozzio&#33; 16:44, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The official Olympic Records list Bruce Jenner as the winner. This is consistent with an encyclopedia, and the way other records and name changes are handled.69.69.186.3 (talk) 17:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Please actually read MOS:IDENTITY. Name changes are handled differently for transgender poeple. Skyerise (talk) 17:10, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Again, see the standard for athletic records. This is consistent with all athletic competitions and organizations. I have added a source. Please don't delete it.69.69.186.3 (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * MOS:IDENTITY overrides all other policies on the matter. You should self-revert. Skyerise (talk) 17:19, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey, Skyerise, you know MOS:IDENTITY isn't policy, right? It's only a guideline. Those are two very different terms on Wikipedia, you need to learn the distinction. &#161;Bozzio&#33; 17:22, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * So the official Olympic website is not a reliable source? This is ridiculous.69.69.186.3 (talk) 17:24, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure it's a reliable source. But we use transgender persons new names throughout Wikipedia. The source confirms the individual won, it does not mean we use the old name as reported before transition. Skyerise (talk) 17:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * When the IOC changes the record, the article should reflect that. Until then, the article should go by official Olympic records.69.69.186.3 (talk) 17:30, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope. Skyerise (talk) 17:53, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Hey, I don't know if you are all aware of the current discussion on this issue at Wikipedia's Village pump. I would suggest halting the editing of this page until there's a consensus at the central discussion (which you are all invited to contribute to). Howicus (Did I mess up?) 17:55, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The discussion is pointless. The aspect of MOS:IDENTITY that deals with naming and pronouns related to gender-identity cannot be overridden by consensus. Skyerise (talk) 17:58, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I think adding (formerly Bruce Jenner) is an acceptable compromise.69.69.186.3 (talk) 18:06, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Bruce Jenner is the official Olympic winner of the medals. Until that changes, the article should stay the same.69.69.186.3 (talk) 13:35, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Since when? It's a guideline, which absolutely can be overridden by consensus.  And what's more, you need to actually read MOS:IDENTITY which explicitly treats the main biographical article and references to person in question in other articles differently - it instructs us to give precedence (not dominion) in the former, it instructs us to consider it based on context in the latter.  This is the latter and the historical context is more important.  If you want to make an actual argument rather than WP:CRYBLP, find reliable sources covering the 1976 Summer Olympics Men's decathlon that use Ms. Jenner's current name.  And that doesn't mean articles about Ms. Jenner that reference the Olympics.CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 19:58, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
 * And quite frankly, you've been here long enough to know what guidelines are, so it's hard to WP:AGF that you think there's one magical guideline that functions as a supervote. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 20:02, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

She won the medal under her old identity. So why not keep the old name, and in brackets the new one. That makes a lot more sense. --Lead holder (talk) 15:18, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Because our current guideline, MOS:IDENTITY, says to do otherwise. And while it's not policy, using a transgender person's "dead name" is broadly considered offensive, so WP:BLP essentially backs MOS:IDENTITY with policy. It's the right thing to do. Skyerise (talk) 15:21, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You need to reread the very top of the MOS page to which you keep citing. The page does not impose a guideline saying what you think it says. It says the overriding policy is common sense and that all the rules will have exceptions. That means no rule on that page is anywhere near as absolute as you seem to think. The bottom line of "common sense" is particularly appropriate here. There can be no reasonable dispute that the decathlon in 1976 was won by someone who at that time was named Bruce Jenner. What may have happened sometime later, including whatever he wants to be called almost 39 years later, is entirely irrelevant to what happened in 1976. The idea of using the name "Bruce" and dropping a footnote saying he later asked to be known by a female name is an entirely accurate and reasonable solution. (Sorry about the IP signature....I have a Wikipedia username, but I'm typing this on an iPad, I don't have my password saved on here, and I don't remember what it is because I saved it on my PC.) 108.45.118.8 (talk) 02:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

As a woman she would not have been allowed to compete in the men's competition. Therefor, if the official gold medal winner would be changed to Caitlyn, she would have to be disqualified and ripped off the medal. And so this constructed problem would be automatically solved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.103.193 (talk) 19:13, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Thought I'd share a similar situation: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a basketball player, changed his name to that from Lew Alcindor. If you read the article, when discussing him before the name change, he is referred to as Lew Alcindor. After the name change, they use the new name. It's not such an emotionally charged issue with him so there aren't a bunch of SJW's crying about it but that seems to me the common sense way to handle it. 2602:30A:C06E:EDC0:5A9:A986:F1BD:A4E3 (talk) 14:17, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Is this talk still going on? This pretty much concluded a year ago. We have it listed and sourced as Bruce with a note that she has changed her name, and a link to the Caitlyn Jenner article. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:36, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Jenner discussions
We have discussions about the policy going on at Village pump (policy)/Archive 121 and about the other usages of Jenner's identity at Talk:Caitlyn Jenner. There is a lot of discussion to read at both locations. Trackinfo (talk) 03:08, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Should it be pointed out how notable this was in that a woman won it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.196.214 (talk) 15:47, 10 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Strange, isn't it? The article 2022 Commonwealth Games says the Games were opened by "Charles, Prince of Wales". Yet he identifies these days as King Charles III. Shouldn't that be changed? 2A02:C7C:C47F:E200:501:EEC8:94EF:3AD1 (talk) 11:30, 25 September 2022 (UTC)