Talk:Dilnigar Ilhamjan

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"of Uyghur origin/ancestry"

The fact that she is an Uyghur doesn't indicate she is of Uyghur origin. Uyghur is just her personal identity/affiliation/choice. Due to her geographic location it's likely she may have some Kazakh/Tuvan ancestry. The Chinese transcription of her paternal grandfather's name Muraji (instead of standard Uyghur Miraji) might indicate her paternal ancestors might speak some northern Turkic variety. Thus "of Uyghur ancestry" should never be used unless one has perfect knowledge about her ancestors. It's only safe to say herself is an Uyghur. --173.68.165.114 (talk) 08:06, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources indicate her as Uyghur, what you are claiming is simply speculation unless it is confirmed otherwise. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 13:49, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

We do not speculate about hypothetical blood quantum on Wikipedia.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That was exactly what I was saying. As I said, she was an Uyghur. This is a simple fact based on her self-identity and should not be challenged by her blood or any argument like that. That's the basic respection of her ego. From where she was born, she may (or may not) have Kazakh, Tuvan, Oirat, any many other ancestry, which has nothing to do and cannot challenge her identity. However, I've spot many editor changing "Uyghur" to "Chinese of Uyghur origin/ancestry" with an edit summary she's an (ethnic Han) Chinese with Uyghur blood (that branded by the Chinese government as an Uyghur). This is problematic for two reasons: 1. unless you have reliable source claiming all her grandparents are Uyghurs, you cannot claim she's "of Uyghur ancestry"; 2. whether she has Uyghur ancestry is not that relevant, as her affiliation to the Uyghur nation, not Han nation is the sole story that matters. Even if we know her origin we should not substitute her identity with her origin (although her origin could be given in a separate paragraph if it's really that necessary). We do not live in a racist society that care what one's origin is. Substitute ones identity with one's origin speculated by Wikipedians is very disrespectful. I'm glad y'all agreed she's an Uyghur, as New York Times is spreading disinformation claiming she was "a cross-country skier who the Chinese said has Uyghur roots" (China didn't disclose her ancestry, nor did China say she was an Uyghur in the ceremony). Now we can get over that mess.
I'm not so sure whether contributing her Uyghur name to Wikipedia was a positive thing. Some people in reddit has already called her Mandarin transcribed name a "bastardized rendering of Dilnigar Ilhamjan" and got some 71% upvote. Great, I'm also a Mandarin speaker, presumably he might think each time we read out her name in Mandarin we become "bastard". I won't blame them and I'm not surprised. Your liberal media claimed that China's choice of an Altay-born skier not far from the birthplace of ski as torch-bearer to be "provocative", no wonder the mass will call that "evil". What was out of my imagination is by contributing her legal Uyghur name, people will make use of that and call our pronunciation "bastard". I should probably be more restrained providing people's original Uyghur name. --173.68.165.114 (talk) 18:15, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's good that now at least some media used her native name. Last time when Googling "Dilnigar Ilhanjan" the top ones are hate speeches like "your Chinese bastardized rendering of Dilnigar Ilhamjan". --173.68.165.114 (talk) 01:58, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ski career

Her ski career should be given due mention. There is no dispute that she is the daughter of Ilhamjan/Yilamujiang Miraji, the famous cross-country ski coach (who taught her to ski) and received a bronze medal in the 1993 national cross-country skiing competition. Removing that information from the article is going WAY too far here. Even Washington Post acknowledges this fact (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2022/02/05/dinigeer-yilamujiang-cauldron-olympic-skiing/). And we know that she started skiing when she was 12 (http://sports.yahoo.com/beijing-olympics-puts-young-uyghur-072655427.html).--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Then source it to those reliable sources, what we can't do is source it to Xinhua or the local party organ. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 15:55, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's totally disrespectful to ignore Dilnigar's family interview from local news agency. For most people in remote area, local media are the only media they have access to. There may and may not be links of those media to state funds, party funds, etc., and when government agency has official publicization/propaganda they got to reprint it (like in the US media also reproduce Biden's press release), but that doesn't give an excuse to call their interview unreliable. Blindly reject all local media could only result in an information war against the local people, like the New York Times disinformation calling her disinformation claiming she was "a cross-country skier who the Chinese said has Uyghur roots". --173.68.165.114 (talk) 18:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dilnigar is not a part of controversy

@Abishe, Sdkb, and PlanespotterA320: We have to have some basic respect to this athlete. It's offensive to say the main article of her Olympic career is "Concerns and controversies at the 2022 Winter Olympics". She didn't intend to distract you from looking at Xinjiang. If you're distracted by her lighting of the Olymlic flame, that's your problem. If you think there's some sneaky plot in the choice of this Altay skier, please write it into Xi Jinping's Wikipedia page. You may write "this gentleman brazenly chose an Uyghur to light the Olympic cauldron" and I won't mind (though to be frank, Xi didn't ask you to focus on her ethnic identity), but please do not bully an athlete on her page unless you have well-sourced evidence claiming Dilnigar intended to use her appearance in the Olympic as a distraction to you so that you can have your eye away from the Uyghurs. --173.68.165.114 (talk) 02:22, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the ping, IP. Wikipedia relies on what reliable sources write. In this case, the vast majority of the coverage about her 2022 Olympics is about her torch lighting, not about her 43rd-place finish. It doesn't matter what she "intended". Personally, I don't see the {{Main}} pointing to Concerns and controversies at the 2022 Winter Olympics as "offensive", but as a compromise I'd be fine changing it to {{Further}} instead, which I think is the better choice anyways. I'll switch it to that. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 02:30, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I had no problem with the statements about the controversy, but it's not appropriate to be written into an athlete's biography - simply off topic. The controversy is not about her, it's about the choice. It should be recorded in the biography of the person who chose her. Here's an analogy: just because Joseph Stalin claim "Skdb is my best friend" (he didn't) doesn't mean we should write "this person is the best friend of Stalin" on your personal page. --173.68.165.114 (talk) 02:34, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If WP:RS extensively covered the claim by Stalin that Skdb was their best friend there is no way we wouldn't mention it on their personal page. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 15:21, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]