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Editorial policy regarding stating race particularly with Black, black, white, White and African American

Several questions regarding Police use of deadly force in the United States and related articles. These articles are inconsistently using African American, Black, black, white, and White. I noticed some discussion on this point but totally lost on what the policy or best practice is. And the article Wikipedia:Manual of Style doesn't seem to have any guidance on this point.

Only recent killings by police articles include a race column. Is it permitted to add a race column in older killings by police articles? Examples: List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, September 2020 and List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, April 2020 Has or will Wikipedia formally decide to switch to the use of Black and White generally? And plan to update Wikipedia:Manual of Style accordingly? Since most reliable sources are using Black and White, is it okay to correct articles immediately? If an article mixes Black, black, and African American, is it okay to correct to Black immediately? Does African American need a hyphen? Who should be contacted regarding this or are Wikipedia master editors automatically noticed?

Any help or guidance would be much appreciated.

Thank you NavajoDutchman (talk) 13:00, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

If you have questions about a particular article it's better to ask on its talk page (Talk:Police use of deadly force in the United States) otherwise people won't see it. The Police use of deadly force in the United States article was written by a lot of different editors over a lengthy period of time and often uses whatever style a particular citation uses so that's why it's inconsistent. As a rule of thumb you can pick any style as long as it's consistent within an article and makes sense (e.g. don't use British spellings in an American article). Also keep in mind that you don't want to change too arbitrarily (e.g. "black" is not always the same as "African American"). In general you can be bold and add or remove things to any article yourself since nobody owns an article. Just be careful not to break the tables since list syntax can be weird. You can test things in your sandbox to make things easier. Also don't do this. Hope this helps.Citing (talk) 17:49, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Your help desk question

You have a response. This might also be a question for WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:32, 13 October 2021 (UTC)