Thread:DevilSlayer123/@comment-862718-20200129113255/@comment-862718-20200207090029

How did it get started? I'm writing an article. I was giving a tip on a story, and I came here to do research, because as a writer, I try to make sure I do lots of research and interviews and I try to make sure to be unbiased. I'm a big fan of this series, and I've even read the light novels, so this story peeked my interest when it was brought to my attention. I wanted to make sure my article was factual and unbiased. So I came to talk to the people here to get my facts straight.

Yes, it wasn't mentioned. That's because Japan has a cultural taboo with mentioning the actual names of disabilities, mental health problems, diseases, etc. that characters have in fiction. It's why the TV Tropes "ambiguous disorder" and such exist. To get around this, they use workarounds by just trying to have the character clearly act like they have a ceretain disorder, or have the character be in a wheelchair but never specify why they can't walk, or have a transwoman say "I have the heart of a woman," like Alice. So again, to say Alice isn't a transwoman and list Alice as male is actually ignoring the culture of the series of your Wiki is written for, which means that by using "we go by the pronoun and the pronoun alone for accuracy" as your reasoning, you're actually doing the opposite of what you say you're doing by making your Wiki less accurate.

Wikipedia. They have a Rakudai article and list sources for Alice being trans. Between Wikipedia and your Wiki, which are most going to consider more accurate, and which can you claim is more accurate?

It's not a report, it's an article that I'm writing and going to publish.

That's just it. You could put the same effort you're putting in trying to hold you ground and defend using reasons that are easily picked apart by changing the article to better reflect canon and Japanese culture and to improve your Wiki's image with transpeople after the words of your founder and the resulting actions on Alice's article. You're telling me to use my effort to help actual transgender people, when that's what I likely will do with this article. Plus, helping transpeople is not my goal with this article, it's just to report the facts. Your Wiki, on the other hand, has a chance to use this same effort you're using to defend your decisions to instead make amends with transpeople after what your founder said on Alice's Talk article and after you've dug your heels in to refuse to accurately list Alice as a transwoman. This is effectively denying an IRL transperson representation by denying that a trans character is trans.

I just have to ask. Why? Why defend your decision on this so fiercely? Why put so much effort into maintaining a stance that you know is drawing the ire and questions of others and is for reasons that are easily poked holes in? What possible thing could this Wiki lose instead of gain by listing Alice as a transwoman so that it matches Wikipedia, TV Tropes, and My Anime List?