" So you're saying that despite the requirement that reliable sources describe the person commonly and consistently in a certain way, we're just going to do it some other way because the other way is too hard? Is that not just the IDONTLIKEIT argument you keep accusing others of making? I think you'll be hard-pressed to find ""year of publication"" used as a defining characteristic in reliable sources in most cases. And now you want to change the language in the guideline to support what you want to do? Until now you've argued that the language is clear and that it supports your position. Maybe the categories should be sparsely categorized. Not every novelist who's a woman is commonly and consistently discussed as a woman
" So you're saying that despite the requirement that reliable sources describe the person commonly and consistently in a certain way, we're just going to do it some other way because the other way is too hard? Is that not just the IDONTLIKEIT argument you keep accusing others of making? I think you'll be hard-pressed to find ""year of publication"" used as a defining characteristic in reliable sources in most cases. And now you want to change the language in the guideline to support what you want to do? Until now you've argued that the language is clear and that it supports your position. Maybe the categories should be sparsely categorized. Not every novelist who's a woman is commonly and consistently discussed as a woman.