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 :First, let's please keep this converstion in one place for later reference and not go back and forth on each others talk pages.  Second, if you want to try to edit the ship article guidelines, you may, but I don't see how you can win that arguement if you rely on the position that to use the same pronoun that the source uses is ""inaccurate"".  If your main objection is that the practice is no longer considered good style because some people are offended by it, that has a chance of rhetorical success, but you'd have to prove that that is the case.  You'd need to find some article somewhere proving that women do object to the practice or that style guides object to it or something, because I don't think it's as clear that it is offensive to women as you seem to think.  For example, you may recall examples of men who so loved their cars they called them ""she"".  So it seems to me that men call things ""she"" out of love, not ""objectification"".  You seem to feel that the practice objectifies women, but I've always assumed the opposite: that the practice personifies objects.  There's a scene in the original Star Trek series episode ""The Naked Time"" where Captain Kirk mentions this issue in a monologe which includes the line ""Now I know why they call it ""she"""".  Please check it out, it may give you pause.    "