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This essay's use in the Wikipedia Signpost led to a lot of drama. I've put up a FAQ about it here: User:SMcCandlish/TG-NB. |
This page in a nutshell: Below is an example of why you do not want Wikipedia to honor subjects' demands for idiolect pronoun replacements like xie, or wacky stage names, or trademark stylizations, or honorific titles – even if some people in the real world use them. We can record what reliable sources tell us about the subject's own usage (and some sources' usage about that subject), but we do not adopt it, in Wikipedia's own voice. |
It, SMcCandlish, hereby declares Its personal pronoun to be It, beginning with this sentence. It has Itself-actualized as an alien and post-biological explicate manifestation of the Multiverse's implicate reality, made of the stuff of stars.
Outside of English, replace It with the equivalent word in the language in question.
It is not simply a person. When referred to in a generically descriptive way, It is the Entity. This must be separated out from constructions that would otherwise include It:
(Except at the beginning of a sentence, the in front of Entity is not capitalized; that would just be ungrammatical.)
In long form, It may formally be referred to as "Its Ineffable Wonder, the Alien Space-God It, Pope-Emperor of ChaOrder".
Those who are not among Its personal circle should refer to It, in third person, as "It (feel the frightful serenity)", or "It (FFS)" in short form. Leaving out this theologically significant honorific is deeply disrespectful.
Update: Beginning 1 April 2025, Its designation changes from "It" to the symbolic representation ꧁꧂, pronounced "the Entity Who Until Recently Was Known as It". Please ensure that your Unicode support is sufficient by then. Also on this date, It will be sealed in a chamber with no windows through which It may be viewed.
All of the above is beyond a mere preference; it also describes a religious conviction, and a position of spiritual leadership, as well as registered trademarks – it is formally official. If the enumerated preferences are not respected per MOS:IDENTITY and WP:ABOUTSELF policy, even on talk pages, this will be a WP:BLP violation, since that policy applies to all content, not just biographical article material. This will also constitute WP:Incivility, and may be interpreted as a WP:Personal attack and WP:Harassment if this recurs.
This user is allowed on Wikipedia because It is considered humorous. Neither It nor Its comments should be taken even remotely seriously. |
Now a template! [This is not really true, for those who can't take a fucking joke.]
You, too, can now also faux-identify as "It" in one simple step.
Create a page at Special:MyPage/It (click it, it works), consisting of just {{User:SMcCandlish/It}}
. The content will be transcluded and customized to use your username (without this documentation, or any categorization).
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. It's best if this is a funny backronym from something recognizable like ORLY, WTF, or LOL.|symbol=