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Everyone knows that Jimbo Wales is a guy - and the template says "he/she". But "Gurch" and "X!" are not generally known as males, and the template says "he". Is this template a joke, or is it just an utterly bad documentation? — Sebastian 23:07, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
This template doesn't work desirably in subpages that are two or more levels deep (e.g., User:Richwales/Tabs/Userboxes). If {{ BASEPAGENAME}} is supplied as the first parameter in this case, it gets stripped to (e.g.) Richwales/Tabs (since {{ BASEPAGENAME}} strips only one subpage) — a result which isn't a user name and therefore doesn't correspond to any gender. I can work around this by wrapping the parameter in {{#titleparts}} (see User:Richwales/Userboxes/en-us-N* for an example), but it seems to me that {{#titleparts}} really ought to be used in the {{ Gender}} template itself, instead of having to be invoked in every use of the template. Comments? — Rich wales 22:14, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
Update: Pinging
SebastianHelm (Sebastian),
Camaron and
Soap:
Goldenshimmer
recently changed the template to use
singular they, which comes on the heels of
a WP:LGBT discussion (involving
Lava03, myself,
The Anome,
Maplestrip and
Funcrunch) about use of singular they. Goldenshimmer did
the same for
Template:Gender/doc.
Flyer22 Reborn (
talk) 04:30, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Pinging CT Cooper in case the Camaron Doppelgänger no longer works. I also struck through Soap's name above since I forgot that he is banned. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 04:33, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
{{gender|ExampleNeutral|3="he or she"}}
would emit he or she. This would make the template more convenient both for the ‘linguistic conservatives’ who‘d rather not use singular they and for the ‘pioneers’ who advocate e, SHe, xe, or some other set of neologisms.—
Odysseus
147
9 07:22, 15 April 2016 (UTC)Anyone got an idea how to fix this template to stop reporting the wrong case when the first parameter does not resolve? This issue makes it impossible to use accurately for examples. I.e.:
{{
gender|SMcCandlish|object}}
correctly produces "him": him{{
gender|ExampleUser|object}}
should produce "them" for |object=
, but instead produces "they": themSomething's making it "short-circuit" back to the default nominative/subjective case. I don't know anything about the {{gender:}}
parser function and what can be done to make it behave better. Seems there should be a way to feed it some kind of default value, that varies by |object=
value, when |1=
doesn't check out, that makes to produce gender-neutral output that corresponds to the selected |object=
.
For an example of where this barfs in a real template, see {{
User:Anomie/User non-admin}}
—
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 19:19, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
Should we use "themselves" or "themself"? Personally, I lean towards the latter, for the same reason "yourself" is considered correct grammar even though "you" was originally the plural of "thou". It's also apparently recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style. Anomie ⚔ 00:43, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
{{
Pronoun}}
) that work on parameter data rather than by getting user info from MediaWiki. I'm skeptical about changing the default in any of them from themselves to themself without some kind of "most modern style guides say ..." rationale. (I'm usually the one who provides one for something, but I don't have time right now to go such a sourcing run on something this minor. Maybe some of this work has already been done and it' already covered at
Singular they? (I haven't looked lately.) If not, it should be, since it's a usage conflict and can probably be well-documented. —
SMcCandlish
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¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 11:14, 18 December 2017 (UTC)