Talk:Monica Roberts

Death
According to a friend of hers, Monica Roberts passed away on Monday of this week (here's the Facebook post). No other information seems to be available at this time.50.67.80.193 (talk) 21:50, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * After researching, I found another source that gives more details about the death. The article expands that her death was not the result of a hit-and-run, but a medical emergency. Please see https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/Monica-Roberts-identified-in-Houston-hit-and-run-15634310.php Jurisdicta (talk) 20:51, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Birth name
This information is available in the Texas Birth Index on ancestry.com. This is probably the same person as Monica Roberts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:A0:2A00:741E:7183:69D8:E541 (talk) 18:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Roberts did not become notable until after her gender transition, so her birth name (deadname) should not be included in the article per Wikipedia policy. Funcrunch (talk) 21:37, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Ethnicity in the lead sentence
I removed this and it was restored. Is the subjects ethnicity relevant to their notability per MOS:ETHNICITY? I would leave it out.--Malerooster (talk) 19:40, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I would argue it is, as Roberts is notable for her advocacy concerning African-American transgender women. Morgan695 (talk) 20:44, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree.  Glee anon 21:13, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Death date
Looking at the edit history, I see that like there was initially uncertainty over the cause of death, there were edits changing her date of death back and forth between October 6th and the 5th, so I looked into it, and am noting my findings here for the record. Although a few sources like OutSmart (despite itself being Houston-based!) have October 6th (as of when I'm writing this comment, anyway), and several avoid the uncertainty by just saying "in October", I see that local Houston media KPRC, citing local authorities, has the 5th, as does the New York Times, so I infer the 5th is more likely to be correct. -sche (talk) 03:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)