The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not Moved. There is a consensus that MOS:GENDERID mostly applies to living people. Additionally, the subject did not appear to reject the name "Steve New", and typically(?) used he/him pronouns. (non-admin closure) casualdejekyll 21:24, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Steve New → Stella Nova – This move would reflect the subject's most recent name and gender identity. Though she is likely best known by the name "Steve New", this change would be in line with MOS:GENDERID, which encourages the use of language that reflect[s] the person's latest expressed gender self-identification as reported in the most recent reliable sources, even if it does not match what is most common in sources. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 19:43, 30 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 20:41, 6 April 2022 (UTC) — Relisting.  ASUKITE 20:00, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Biography has been notified of this discussion. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 20:41, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comments: MOS:GENDERID seems to focus on living people. This person has been dead for 12 years and seems better known as "Steve New". I recall at least one other RM for an article about a dead person in which we decided to use the name by which the person was primarily known, although if I recall correctly, there were some unclear aspects in that case. I also notice a strange but clear tendency in the sources for this article to use "he/him/his" (see here and here), even in articles that clearly discuss what 3am calls their "tranny title", and even in an obituary in The Guardian written by someone self-described as a friend. Are there any reliable sources that use "she/her/hers" like the Wikipedia article does? Did New/Nova ever comment on preferred pronouns? See Jamie Wallis for an example of someone who has come out as trans but said they plan to continue to use male gendered pronouns "for the time being". Most of the uses of "Stella Nova" and the female gendered pronouns in this article were introduced by anonymous IPs last year, with no WP:edit summaries. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 21:27, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • You raise a good point about the pronouns. I haven't been able to see any sources explicitly discussing Nova's preferred pronouns, so I think the sources you link are probably the strongest evidence we have for making a determination on pronouns. Regardless of which article title we ultimately decide upon, I think it's therefore most appropriate to use "he/him" pronouns in the article space. As for MOS:GENDERID – personally I think it's applicable here, as Nova announced the name change during their lifetime, and the post-name change sources commonly (albeit not universally) refer to them as Stella. However, it's definitely not a 100% clear-cut issue, and I can see the merit of retaining the existing title as well. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:52, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Thank you for the response. I think it's a bit tricky how to deal with gendering issues for dead people – especially long-dead people – e.g., as they are not able to express their own personal preferences or clarify any ambiguities, and it can be unclear to what extent they have fully repudiated a name or gendering, and here we are dealing with a person who performed extensively and thus had a public persona. Everywhere I look in MOS:GENDERID, I see what appears to be a deliberate restriction of its scope to living people, albeit "for any phase of the person's life" – e.g., "If a living transgender or non-binary person was ...", "A living transgender or non-binary person's former name should be ...", and "In articles on works or other activity by a living trans or non-binary person before transition, ..." In MOS:GENDERID and MOS:GIDINFO, I find guidance about dead names, but not about dead people. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 00:17, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Relisting comment - I'm relisting a second time hoping that we end up with more discussion about whether MOS:GENDERID might apply in this case (although it seems fairly clear, I can see this discussion being a good starting point to help us eventually improve the policy to cover edge cases like these better, and I don't quite want to close this yet, otherwise it looks like it would be a no consensus close), and as there have been no actionable opinions for or against other than the nom yet. ASUKITE 20:02, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose per WP:RS. She The subject was most notable as Steve New and the article's sources reflect that. —  AjaxSmack  03:48, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I knew Steve for the last 16 years of his life and he never once ever used female pronouns to my knowledge. He came out as a transvestite and adopted the persona Stella, but he never rejected the name Steve or viewed it as a dead name. I know from previous experience that Wikipedia prefers "sources" to actual facts so I don't expect this comment to contribute anything to the discussion, I simply make it because I knew and loved him and he always identified himself as Steve, even when performing as Stella. When he died in 2010 the whole conversation about pronouns wasn't even yet in its infancy. Everyone knew him as Steve, even those who knew him as Stella. 173.25.107.118 (talk) 04:45, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak oppose: Although he changed his name late in his life, it is not clear that he really considered the use of his birth name as deadnaming. Even after his name change, various sources continued to primarily use "Steve New" (even while expressing a supportive tone about his gender identity), and he apparently continued to use (or at least not express an objection to) male gendered pronouns. He was better-known then and is better-known now as "Steve New" rather than as "Stella Nova". He is dead, so we cannot expect future clarification about that question, and we probably cannot expect future sources to broadly adopt "Stella Nova" as his common name. (See also Cat Stevens and Stokely Carmichael.) —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 20:19, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]