User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25366250-20181009223027

I appreciate that this issue has been discussed previously, however one of the more recent posts was what pronouns to use for Time Lords in general. I am specifically talking about the Doctors page (since that is undoubtedly the most popular of the Time Lords pages on this wiki).

For background, I recently re-wrote the article in a way that never explicitly states a pronoun. Writing "they" and "their" makes the page very difficult to read in my opinion, and a lot of the time it's grammatically poor when it's hard to decipher who a sentence is referring to. "They" usually refers to more than one person, so it's very difficult on the average reader. I took out pronouns completely which shouldn't be an issue for anyone. It's not like I've simply reverted the edits, but I have worded the page in a way which makes sure no reference to a pronoun is used, like what Wikipedia has done on their "The Doctor" page. As far as I'm aware, there is zero reason to revert this. The article reads better and by taking out pronouns completely (expect for when referring to specific incarnations), it essentially settles the debate of which ones to use in my view. For reference, here is the revision of the page where no pronoun is explicitly used except for referring to specific incarnations: https://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor?oldid=2560325

Hopefully this can be discussed. I think we can avoid the entire pronoun issue if we just cleverly word the articles to make no explicit pronoun reference to the character overall - essentially making the page genderless. If this works (which I believe it does) it can hopefully be passed around the entire wiki. I've noticed major inconsistencies in the pronoun issues across the entire wiki. For the record, I have read Tardis:Doctors and my edits don't go against anything there at all. If nobody reverted what I changed, I believe nobody would even notice.