Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26899500-20161011223922/@comment-5939269-20161018191009

Birdpool wrote: Light Bomber wrote: Birdpool wrote: Light Bomber wrote: Birdpool wrote: Protanly wrote: You guys miss the fact that certain cases like female plant heroes come from plants we want to define as male. Chompzilla being one big one that I can see. This is a huge example of how we can't label the entire plethora of a character like chomper, when sources say that it is possible for both. And since it is possible for both, we just ignore gendered language altogether.

Like I've stated, there's a good reason why we should stick to gender neutral language, and it isn't just some SJW agenda thing. It's beneficial for wiki's and that's why many of them choose to do so. I feel we should do the same.

At the end of the day, we shouldn't be the ones to decide which is the main source to decide. Is the almanac really anymore reliable than notifications shown for the game when both are officially by Popcap? Heck dialogue in the game contradicts the genders stated. It isn't in our right to decide which is the almighty thing that decides these kinds of things, and we should just avoid the issue altogether with gender neutral language. So we only use gender neutral for ones that have a contradiction. Plus, transgender is a thing that exists, so that could be related to Chompzilla  being female. Being transgender doesn't change your actual gender, so you're related to as your original gender, unless you like beg people to reffer to you as your "new gender" or if they don't know you're trans


 * referred to

Actually no, you're referred to as what you look like if people dont know you're trans.

That, and, CDave may heve been told by Czilla what he/she/it wants to be called. Also, plants, in most cases, are both genders at once, which means (even more so) that we should obey the Almanac. What you're going to call them if they're both genders then?

Shhe?

Hshe? Depends on their preference. There's also "Zhe" which is neutral. Find me one instance where a plant has explicitly said "Call me by this fucking pronoun", and I'll concede. The preference is never stated, thus we go by neutral pronouns in which case "it" and "its" are best since referring to plants as such is proper.

No preferences have been stated, and we may not assume anything. Following Wikipedia's standards for this, without an explicit preference stated, neutral is best.

.... Not to mention that it literally becomes standard across the wiki, preventing case by case basis on articles, which is also a positive thing.