Looking forward to the shitshow to come, since I decided to edit Taka Jamoreesa’s Wookiepedia page to say they are non-binary, rather that they have “an unspecified gender.”
Sadly Eleodie Maracavanya’s page is protected, so I as a new user can not do the same for zher page (and therefore really establish Non-Binary Individuals as a category on Wookiepedia), or specify that Wendig has said that zhe is human so zhe should not be classified under “unspecified species” either. If anyone reading this is an established user who can correct this absurdly transphobic error on Eleodie’s page, it would be really appreciated.
@zareleonis have you done enough edits to edit protected pages? Cause I know you’ve done similar things for Sinjir and Dec’s pages, and you’ve also just done general work on expanding the jtr pages.
i actually saw your edit and jumped in wrote up a behind the scenes section just now that explains their gender + pronouns and also gives a summary of the controversy regarding taka’s (incorrect) pronouns in foreign translations! very heavily sourced, i might add.
as far as whether you could face pushback, i think the only reason that could be used to justify is that it’s not explicitly stated in the books. also, wookieepedia has been leaning away from using statements on social media as sources for in universe canon facts (so i’m not sure putting down human for eleodie would stick until it’s in a published source). however, what IS irrefutably canon and in canon sources is their pronouns. just as we take the use of He to denote male and She to denote female, to discount the conscious use of exclusively They, Zhe, etc pronouns as a clear indicator that a character is non-binary would be an inappropriate double standard and to ignore it would require a baseless and Not-Canonically-Supported assumption that the use of such pronouns denotes something different than what it typically does in the real world.
i don’t think ignoring this holds up, either in terms of what is morally right and how wookieepedia approaches canon. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
if you need help editing or with citations i have decent know-how. it’s a shitload of trial and error and searching to figure out to do things right lol.
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