there's a trans wikipedia admin named Tamzin who i run into a lot because they maintain a lot of queer/trans-related pages and...their official preference for if anyone ever writes a wikipedia article that mentions them is for the writer of the article to use mediawiki's magic word function to make it so that they (Tamzin) are automatically referred to in the article with whatever pronouns are used by the article's most recent editor..............their Mind
@rigormorphis 1) this is a fantastic pronoun policy 2) what does that last line mean on the separate paragraph? do not kno enough about wikipedia gender policy esoterica to parse…
@Satsuma oh, MOS:GENDERID = the manual of style guidance on writing about trans people. in biographies of living people (so, any article about a living person) there are special rules for trans people that MOS:GENDERID outlines, which include things like not stating their deadname unless they were previously also notable under that name (a la eliot page), referring to them with nouns and pronouns that match their most recently stated preference even when referring to their life pre-transition, etc. so this person is basically like, "if you ever have reason to write about me in a wikipedia article, feel free to say what name i was born with, that i was a little girl once, and so on"
@rigormorphis ahhh that kind of anachronistic! i was like “does wikipedia still call trans people some outdated term and i just havent noticed????”
