Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25620470-20150907220403/@comment-310-20150910221011

I think this issue has been blown out of proportion.

There is no set 100% agreed-upon standard for gender-neutral pronouns outside of "Them/They" in English, because there are those for whom English is not a native language, and such words as "Sie" and "Hir" would be foreign to them, not to mention to a large percentage of readers for whom English *is* a native language.

Any rule on how articles are treated are a matter for that wiki, if it even needs to be enacted as a policy. Frankly, it's not a big deal, as the only person who seems to be offended is you on behalf of someone else. This entire post screams of "This wiki doesn't agree with me, and I want you to reverse that and make them see sense". Both of these points are hallmarks of the social justice movement, and it's becoming tiresome to see.

"Sie" and "Hir" were proposed for the Norwegian language, and I can think of several members of the social justice movement that would consider their transplanting into English as cultural appropriation.

At the end of the day, the Wiki, as a community, has spoken, and delivered judgement. Now, if the subject of the article in question were to get in touch, and be able to provide a source detailing how they would prefer to be addressed in prose, that may be a different story.