User talk:Ceveri

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Evermaw gender
Welcome to Wowpedia and thanks for your edits to Evermaw. I don't want to undo your edit without pointing out that as far as the game is concerned, Evermaw is neuter: neither male nor female. You can see this in-game by running the macro  in your chat window with Evermaw as your current target. You should see a "1" in the chat window, which, as per the documentation, indicates "neuter". Many creatures in the game are in this state, with the notable exception of most humanoids. Run the same macro on male and female pandaren NPCs, for instance, to see "2" and "3" printed, respectively. Additionally, the spell Devour specifically says "him", and not "her".

Rather than ascribe a gender where none exists, I used "it" when talking about the whale wherever I could, only leaving the single "him" in the text that Blizzard provided. This may seem a bit clinical and impersonal, but I'd personally rather be impersonal than incorrect. If you have a rationale why a would work better, I'll gladly change my stance on this. Wowpedia doesn't have a formal policy or guideline specifically for gender-specific/neutral pronoun use (it would appear on our our manual of style if we did), but I and many of Wowpedia's other editors have long tried to use gender-neutral pronoun uses for things that we truly don't know the gender of.

Anyway, welcome once again to Wowpedia and please don't let this scare you off. Please feel free to make other corrections where they need to be made, as this is a wiki after all. Thanks again! -- k_d3 06:25, 18 April 2014 (UTC)