Very detailed and specific but there are a few issues I think... I thought I'd make a thread rather than edit warring over them continuously. Here's what I think of the male article...
VulpesFoxnik said:
Male
For a character to be considered male, certain minimum requirements must be met, however these requirements are automatically waved if the character is known to be from the series as male without altercations, or the artist has specified in the piece’s description, or fursona.
It's great to write very specific documentation, VulpesFoxnik, but honestly these read more like a legal document and are frankly terrifying. I think as a newbie I'd avoid posting if I saw these "REQUIREMENTS" for fear of being banned immediately. It also seems that with the use of terms like "requirements" and "waived" and uh "alterations" (I assume altercations is just a typo) that you're laying down rules and bureaucracy where none ACTUALLY exist.
VulpesFoxnik said:
Genitalia Requirements
Cloaca for some birds, and reptiles.
Phallus in some birds, reptiles, and all mammals.
Scrotum for species where it is appropriate, and for most male anthromorphic characters.
Obviously this whole sections is nonsense... I mean, there are many pictures which feature male characters but do not display any genitalia. Also, genitals TECHNICALLY would fall under sexually dimorphic characteristics anyway, which would solve this problem. Wiki says: "Such undisputed sexual dimorphisms include gonadal differentiation, internal genital differentiation, external genital differentiation, breast differentiation, muscle mass differentiation, and hair differentiation."
Anyway, it should suffice to say that If any set of male SDCs are present and no female SDCs are present, then the character is a male.
VulpesFoxnik said:
Sexually Dimorphic features of mature males
A Masculine body structure for anthromorphic characters.
Appropriate Plumage and coloring for the species, mainly seen in the class Aves .
Enlarged horns in the suborder Ruminantia
Enlarged tusks in the order of Proboscidea .
A mane on species of Panthera leo.
I don't think the taxonomy here is even slightly necessary. This is furry art, not biology, and not to be condescending, but some people aren't smart enough to know what the hell you're on about. And with that level of detail, you ought to at least specify what you mean by "Masculine body structure"... (broad shoulders, straight narrow hips, etc...) Also, I believe the correct terminology is "Sexually Dimorphic" as opposed to "Sexual Dimorphic" but it's quite possible that I'm wrong about that. Anyway, the wikipedia article for "sexual dimorphism" uses sex-dimorphic and sexually dimorphic as its terminology.
VulpesFoxnik said:
Disqualifications for this category
A character who’s artist or creator is identifying the character as female.
Sexual Dimporphic characteristics of the mature female species such as enlarged breasts. Tomboys may be more masculine, however this does not remove the base female species characteristics.
Trans-gendered characters such as crossdressing females.
A pseudo-penis or enlarged clitoris.
Intersexed Characteristics such as hermaphrodites, dickgirls, Futanari, and cuntboys.
I mainly take issue with the "if the creator says they're male or the source says their male." In my original ambiguous_gender, I said that the artist's or source's gender should only be used if no other characteristics are present and this still holds true. Renamon is a female in the series, but what if I draw her as a male? Following this rule, 'he' would still be tagged as male because these are "AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATIONS". The rest of this section I totally agree with.
Updated by Deto