Talk:Xenogender

Untitled section from February 2022

This is a proposal for page creation - putting it here instead of creating the page myself because I'm not experienced enough in editing to create a page myself yet. This page should be created, as the topic - xenogenders - is a real social phenomenon, regardless of opinions for or against the legitimacy of the phenomenon as a part of LGBT identity. Citations are something of an issue, as xenogenders are a small but persistent subset of online LGBT spaces, meaning that the most readily available citations would likely be non-academic in nature, necessarily coming from Fandom wikis and social media platforms. Posting this in the hopes that talk can start about whether or not this page should be built, problems with building it, good citation sources, etc. XenuTheSpacelord (talk) 21:45, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

You can't use Fandom wikis as sources on Wikipedia. wizzito | say hello! 04:39, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

@Wizzito: I figured, which is why I need help building this page, especially in terms of finding usable citations. XenuTheSpacelord (talk) 07:15, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

@XenuTheSpacelord: there's like, one pretty good academic article from a few years ago going into some depth on xenogenders as they were understood pre-2020/2021 and there are other academic references somewhat dealing with xenogenders on that article. definitely would be possible to do a rigorously sourced article on what xenogenders *are* but it may be a little hard to pin down the history without relying on social media and fandom sources. let me know if you'd like me to help write this one up, i've done.. way too much reading on xenogenders (especially trying to find academic sources looking at them) Hopolapopola (talk) 10:32, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@Hopolapopola: I'd love to help with this in any way I can, since I'd like to page to at least exist in some form. I'm not good at building pages, but I can contribute to editing for facts, style, and flow. If the page gets built, I'll keep an eye on it and add what I can. I checked the source, and it seems to confuse Xenogenders with Otherkin - Otherkin being those who claim to be a different species on some level, while Xenogenders are generally understood to be metaphorical expressions of gender - a person claiming "catgender" as an identity is not trying to say they are a cat, but that cats serve as a nebulous gender model, in the same way that some perceive the terms "feminine" and "masculine" as nebulous or arbitrary; a metaphor, more or less. This is based on the use of "transpecism" in the article, but I'll look at it further when the page is being built, and this doesn't prevent it from being usable as a source - it just makes me a bit skeptical about its accuracy in portraying the concepts the page needs to cover. XenuTheSpacelord (talk) 23:54, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@XenuTheSpacelord: from my understanding, the article is leaning more into 'hippo' being a metaphor and rejection of 'human' gender categorisation. anyway. i'll read up on any gender-related style guides and get at least a stub going that explains what xenogenders are, i think i can adequately source at least that. Hopolapopola (talk) 11:51, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

@Hopolapopola: What you have so far is good; I'll add and edit as I can, and look into finding more sources for us to use. Beyond this, it might be useful to include a few related articles so that it isn't orphaned, even if we can't manage building more than a stub. XenuTheSpacelord (talk) 17:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

We might be able to use this as a source, since it connects xenogenders to lexical gaps, mentions an argument against and an argument for the validity of xenogenders - which is something that has colored the discussion of xenogenders since the invention of the term - and lightly touches on the history of the term, using the same story about the term's creation that I've seen many places. The site hosting this article is a news site, so I'm not aware of any reason it wouldn't count as a decent source. XenuTheSpacelord (talk) 01:22, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

• It seems doubtful this could pass WP:GNG, and even if it did, there wouldn't be much to reliably source. However, if covered, it would best be done at non-binary gender, alongside other identities, and where all the necessary background information about non-binary genders already resides. Then this would redirect there. Crossroads ^-talk- 05:32, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

thanks for pointing me to the right place to put this! Hopolapopola (talk) 08:04, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

@Hopolapopola@XenuTheSpacelord@Wizzito maybe try using Draft:Xenogender Tazuco (talk) 18:56, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

@Hopolapopola:@Crossroads: I'm perfectly happy for the page to became a subsection of the nonbinary page, but the redirecting aspect is important to include, since the page current goes nowhere and says nothing. XenuTheSpacelord (talk) 20:55, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

The draft relies heavily on a carrd and fandom wikis, which wouldn't work as WP:RS and was pretty much the whole issue raised at the top of this talk page unfortunately. Hopolapopola (talk) 13:55, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

I prefer the redirect to be soft redirect to wiktionary, as this page is still searchable. However I already created a visible anchor for enby#Xenogender. Tazuco (talk) 20:44, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

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