Talk:Tiera Guinn Fletcher

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Does her race really have to be the first thing in the article?

Most articles about African-American people working in a non-political field don't mention their race in the first sentence. So why does this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:4000:A875:FC0F:B5DA:2E36:31B6 (talk) 04:39, 24 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Normally I would agree with you but in this case the article only exists because of her race and gender. She is not notable based on accomplishment, but stands out because of the very small number of black women in the field. It seems odd therefore to leave it out. LastDodo (talk) 18:00, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki bios for the rest of her teammates

Very cool article here. I'm anticipating many Wiki pages being created for the rest of the designers on the Boeing/Space Launch System team - anyone want to get started on those? I'd imagine one has their work cut out for them in creating those pages - must be a large amount of people as notable as this particular engineer here. Looking forward to reading those biographies! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:192:437F:DA80:E4E9:3C11:7B19:E8E1 (talk) 18:27, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The crystalline fragility of some of the users on this talk page rivals that of actual snowflakes. I'm sorry if it roasts your gizzard that one member of a team has been the subject of more coverage than some of the other members, but that's hardly the fault of Wikipedia or its editors; go whine to Popular Science or something. Perhaps you could complain to NASA for hiring someone so remarkably young — Outside observed in 2018, "At 23, she’s the youngest member of the Engine Section Task Leading team at Boeing, responsible for building an engine section for an 188,000-pound rocket that will eventually send capsules full of astronauts to the moon and Mars. While most of the scientists on her team of 15 are men in their 50s, Tiera landed her first job with the Space Launch Systems program before [emphasis theirs] her senior year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" — or for not putting more than 14 men on the project, as Outside further pointed out that she was the sole woman on the 15-person team.

Would you like instead to complain that MIT hasn't written enough profiles of anyone else on the team who graduated from their school, as they did about Fletcher? Maybe you could write NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! a spirited letter to whimper that it's not fair they hadn't interviewed more rocket scientists in 2019.

Alternatively, both the unidentified user and "LastDodo" could get a grip and recognize that a person can be notable for the combination of their accomplishment together with their race and/or gender. Certainly that's the route I think would be more productive than the foolishness of claiming a person who by the age of 23 had been the subject of more than a dozen profiles about her accomplishments as well as her race, gender, youth, educational outreach to young people, and lively personality somehow is insufficiently notable to merit an article in Wikipedia. Better still: research one or more of the people you feel are being unfairly overlooked and create your own dang article . This is, after all, the encyclopedia anyone can edit, and instead of being a silly naysayer you could be a contributor. Lawikitejana (talk) 22:17, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]