Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-5079138-20160712084350

Well, this is something I really hate with this wiki. The manual of style is edited way too frequently due to wiki management votes, which are mostly related to pronoun changes (gender neutrality for both plants and zombies at first, then for plants only, then for neither of them, then back for both). Seriously, why don't people just STICK with one rule (gender neutrality for plants only as zombies' gender is easily distinguishable by looking at their appearance).

This happens quite frequently (around 2-12 months interval), and it's just make the whole wiki inconsistent (the zombies pronoun fix from "it" to "he/she" I did is just useless at this point since we rolled back to gender neutrality for both plants and zombies)

The first thing we need to solve is, pronouns. We don't want pronounce preference to change every second. That's just literally inconsistent, and all my work on fixing those zombies' pronouns? Useless for now. So, to prevent my (and your!) time from being wasted just to fix pronouns, only for them to get changed again due to constantly changung rules, we need to do sometimg to STOP it, once and for all (well not really, but close to it).

Now, here's some possible ways to solve this.

1. DO NOT, alter the sections that recently changed (e.g. gender pronouncs) until given time (3, 6, 9, 12 months, etc. but not indefinite). Close down any threads that tries to alter the section in question when it hasn't passed its "edit-free period".

2. Try looking at some of the most popular wikis, and use the writing style that's most frequently used in those wikis. Some wikis to look at are Wikipedia, GTA Wiki, WoWWiki, Creepypasta Wiki, Call of Duty Wiki, Battlefield Wiki, etc. If you have more wiki suggestions, leave it in the reply.

An interesting thing is that, in WoWWiki, even though orcs and undeads aren't humans, they still prefer using "he/she" rather than "it". Also, orcs resemble more like zombies, since they have green skin too.

3. Use some kind of poll to see which style people prefer the most (can be posted on internal management too). This can be easily done using the Choice template.

Example:

What's your preferred way of using pronouns on plants/zombies?

1. Gender neutral for EVERY plants and zombies, including Zomboss.

2. Gender neutral for all plants and zombies, except Zomboss.

3. Gender neutral only for plants and zombies with no known gender (i.e. not mentioned in-game whether it's "he" or "she")

4. Gender neutral for plants and non-humanlike zombies only (which means humanlike zombies are assigned with their own pronouns)

5. Gender neutral for plants and non-humanlike zombies with no known gender (i.e. not mentioned in-game whether it's "he" or "she)

6. No gender neutrality, use he/she all the way.

That's all I can try to address this "pronoun discrepancies" and inconsistent manual of style rules.

So available choices are:

 