Talk:Ememem

"He"
The article notes "the identity of Ememem is unknown, and the artist has refused to share information such as age and gender. However, sources uniformly use masculine pronouns for Ememem, so this article does the same".

Yet |the very first source I hit is an article in Dutch which refers to Ememem only once by pronoun, and then uses "hij of zij" ("he or she"), noting that the artist is completely anonymous -- so apparently not that "uniform". I wonder how much of this simply just reflects copied biases (linguistic or otherwise). Given that the artist themself has explicitly stated not to want to divulge their gender, it would seem more natural in English to use "they".

I know there's always the perennial argument that WP is not original, and so "has no choice" but to reflect what sources report, but those sources are clearly not authorities themselves on what pronouns to use for Ememem (by their own admission, through citing the subject). 82.95.254.249 (talk) 10:39, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree with this point; I see no reason why the article should not be written using the pronoun 'they' and I believe it reads strange otherwise. The French Wikipedia article on Ememem uses the pronoun 'sa' which corresponds with the English 'they', as does one of the two French sources on this page. Stephanos100 (talk) 15:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I appreciate this, IP and . I only chose to use "he" because I believed all the sources did the same, but clearly that was a mistake on my part. I'll change the article now. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 17:10, 12 December 2021 (UTC)