Talk:Zhang Yiyao

New article review
Article Zhang Yiyao created at 17:18 on 24 July 2022 (per article revision history), passed review at 01:31 on 25 July 2022 (per reviewed notification time stamp). Tanis Coralee Leonhardi (talk) 01:57, 13 October 2022 (UTC).

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Article initially unassessed at 11:56 on 26 July 2022 (per talk page revision history), assessed as Start at 00:56 on 29 August 2022 (per talk page revision history). Tanis Coralee Leonhardi (talk) 01:59, 13 October 2022 (UTC).

Noting misinformation published by World Aquatics
To help reduce confusion about misinformation published about Zhang Yiyao by World Aquatics, here is a description of what I have found. In the results published by World Aquatics for the mixed duet technical routine at the first leg of the 2023 World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup, held in March in Canada, the gold medal-winning Chinese duo is listed as Wentao Cheng and Haoyu Shi. In their press release for the day, they claimed the female swimmer was Zhang Yiyao, meaning either their published results are erroneous or their press release is. This raised the question of whether World Aquatics fabricated their competition's results. Two months later, in May 2023, they claimed Zhang Yiyao repeated as champion in their press release covering the event, even though the results for the stop in March 2023 still lists Wentao Cheng as the champion for that stop. This raised the concern that World Aquatics is purposefully making it look like the Chinese women are spreading misinformation when in reality it is World Aquatics publishing falsities. Saying a person is more successful that they in fact are is one form of setting a person up for failure.

Noting the misinformation published about at least one female Chinese artistic swimmer here out of concern of whether the misinformation was published with deliberate intent to hurt/personally attack Wentao Cheng and/or Zhang Yiyao. I also have the lingering multi-month now concern that the actions of World Aquatics may be motivated against the race/ethnicity/gender of these female Chinese artistic swimmers. Tanis Coralee Leonhardi (talk) 02:23, 8 May 2023 (UTC).