Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26358011-20151127155916/@comment-24494906-20151127201036

This time I'll participate (which means I won't close this discussion).

So about this proposal and related proposals:

1. Change everything to "sex" by default, but keep the gender field for special cases like Mutsuki: I'm neutral to this change, but I think it is not really worth the effort, as it basically makes no difference for almost all characters.

2. Remove "Gender" field completely and change everything to "Sex": This is acceptable, and we would no longer make such a strong statement about the gender of a character, but has its own issues and will make other people unhappy. This might be the solution that is least contentious among all possible ways we deal with this topic, though. It can also be easily implemented (as "gender" and "sex" would then map to the same entry in the infobox to simplify the transition - with precedence given to the "sex").

3. Remove "Gender" field completely and change everything to "Sex" except for Mutsuki: Sorry, I can't support this. We should not give preferential treatment to a single character. Furthermore, this takes just as much effort as the first proposal.

As for how to implement the changes for 1 and 3: I'd probably create a new bot account for my own use, ask Wikia to give it a bot flag (after opening another required discussion asking for permission by the community of the TG wiki that I can run a bot) and then use semi-automatic tools to make all the changes. These changes would be hidden from Special:WikiActivity and Special:RecentChanges. I probably need one or two weeks for the discussion and the bot flag from Wikia, then I could do these changes.