On 18 July 2012 12:13, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Well, OK. As far as I can see, the standard infobox
for people does
not include a field M/F. Within [[Category:Actors]], where the
WikiProject specifies use of an infobox, it seems that the gendered
occupation "actress" is still widely used. I had assumed this was
obsolescent, as "poetess" and "authoress" are now obsolete. It would
be an improvement to use "actor" throughout and make M/F either an
field in the infobox, or a category, or both.
Make gender a text field, that should satisfy all plausible edge cases
while covering the common two cases.
- d.