Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-27462035-20170820215643

About a month ago, a thread was made to change the gender rules. Look at it here: Thread:1023885 Choice 2 won, and the gender rules were changed. Now, gender is assumed genderless unless it is verified or not, and if it is confirmed male, the gender is male, and vice versa if it is confirmed female.

I don't understand how people can be okay with this. Having it so that SOME plants and zombies have genders and SOME don't based on whether they are verified is confusing! It doesn't help that say, Snorkel Zombie doesn't have a confirmed gender, but is listed as "it", and Flag Zombie has a confirmed gender, and is listed as "he". It's an inconsistent manner of giving genders to plants and zombies, and it even gets in the way of everyone's mainspace editing. Basing gender off of solely descriptions will be messy, because descriptions aren't always the best ways to confirm gender. This, coupled with other factors, such as quests, advertisements, etc., will create confusion, especially if a plant has two confirmed genders (i.e. Toadstool).

Say I want to put some strategies involving Cherry Bomb on Gargantuar's page. It will look somewhat like this:

Cherry Bomb works well with chipping away the health of Gargantuars, as (he/it) will take away half of their health in an instant.

Now because of this predicament, I have to look on Cherry Bomb's page to confirm the gender, and go BACK and use the correct pronoun.

Now if you use the older method, it's much simpler! The gender rules apply to every single plant and zombie, and is not based on something as trivial as descriptions or anything of the sort. Now, ALL plants are genderless, and ALL zombies have a gender, with robots, animals, and a few special cases as exceptions. You don't have to refer to descriptions, advertisments, or whatever for deciding pronouns!

So...

 