I still disagree: traditionally, the "reluctant to speak" sense of "reticent" implied a more general personality characteristic — synonymous with "reserved" or "laconic" — not merely disinclined to speak about one particular subject matter. Since the interviewee was actually relatively verbose, that seems…

I respect both your writing and your site-wrangling a lot, and you're totally within your rights to set the linguistic rules in your own playground. But doesn't this strike you as at all a shaky response? Lexicographers have been moving ever more in the direction of mere descriptivism — neutrally calling balls and…