Talk:Q63080922

The BBC story currently cited for date of birth does not specify the year, only says she's 29 now. Several sources give May 9, 1989 as her birthday and I suspect it's correct, but I haven't seen very good sources yet, they may just recycle the same tidbit. --Ehitaja (talk) 09:52, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

I added the date but please replace it with a better reference if possible. --Ehitaja (talk) 09:54, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Naming

@Spider: I undid your mass rename from "Katie Bouman" to "Katherine Bouman", see http://people.csail.mit.edu/klbouman/ . It's just like with Bill Clinton (Q1124): We use the most common name. Multichill (talk) 15:52, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

@Multichill: Fine, sure. The Bill Clinton case is different in two major aspects: (1) he specifically undertook an action to change his legal name to that at some point to honour his father, and (2) he was named "Bill Clinton" in approximately a bazillion of official documents. There is also a closer case of Milla Jovovich (Q170576): in pretty much all her notable contributions she is credited as "Milla", so we use that. However, all official publications of Bouman (i.e., her primary contributions that make her notable) that I could find and access, mention her as Katherine (or Katherine L., or Katherine Louise). For obvious reasons I do not have access to her diplomas and other legal documents, but they most probably also do not shorten her name. There are two places where she is "Katie": (1) her own webpage (which is her own right — I would be crazy to criticise since on my website I call myself "grammarware") and (2) at the TED talk, which counts as well, but by its very nature is meant to be informal. Unfortunately, it somehow propagated to the media following the black hole hype of yesterday (mostly because the TED talk was the one and only source the journalists were qualified to consume). I personally continue considering it a bad taste for an encyclopedia to prefer press pieces as RS instead of attributions in scientific publications, but I won't fight for it. --Spider (talk) 16:20, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

notable work: galaxy?

P800 "notable work" seems to be meant for things people have created, not the subjects of their work. If Katie Bouman's "notable works" would include the famous image (which doesn't seem to have a WD item of its own), fine. There's the algorithm - fine. But if you really think Messier 87 is of her own creation, please remove "instance of=human". (Does the item for Christian God include notable works like "humankind", "Earth", and "universe"? I'll have to check.) --Ehitaja (talk) 22:21, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

I had removed "Event Horizon Telescope" for the same reason: she had some affiliation to it, but it is not her work in the sense that she was the sole author, or Principal Researcher, or official having set the project into motion. Rama (talk) 07:07, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Date of birth

At the moment, there are several contradictory dates of birth published on several unreliable websites. Please refrain from setting any of them as date of birth until we have information from a reputable source. For now all we know, form the BBC, is that Bouman is 29, which puts her birthdate somewhere in 1989 or 1990. That is all we know as of now. Rama (talk) 07:04, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Actually according to a little digging via facebook which sounds a little creepy (I know), she did say thank you for the birthday wishes on May 10th, 2010.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Msarker86 (talk • contribs).

Msarker86 yes it is creepy, and not needed. If it's not widely known, don't commit privacy violations to find something out. TheDJ (talk) 12:53, 3 May 2019 (UTC)