On 18 July 2012 12:13, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> 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.

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