Board Thread:Shingeki no Kyojin Wiki/@comment-5774380-20150329004214/@comment-5774380-20150330161143

@JinxTheFunhouse: The canon policy is not absolute. In fact, it doesn't even exist yet, we're building it right now. We should try to stick to a common standard but we can and must make exceptions if the circumstances require. We should never rule out that possibility.

@EternalLocket: I understand your point regarding Hange's page. I was reading this old version with the pronouns changed to neutral, and actually, changing text only while looking to care for the free interpretation of the reader is an empty goal, because that page is full of images depicting Hange as female, so we're leading the thoughts of the reader anyway if we keep them there. The neutrality we seek is broken, and in order to reach it, we should remove all pictures from the anime not only from that page, but from all the other articles that use pictures of Hange from the anime... and that's clearly a nonsense.

We're in a situation where whatever decision we make, we'll have to give up something; either a strict canonicity (by interpreting Hange as female), a coherent content (by changing pronouns to neutral while keeping Hange's pictures as female), or a lot of useful content (by changing pronouns to neutral and removing all images of Hange as female).

Since it's impossible to take an action that meets all purposes, we should simply choose the "less bad" option. And I think, looking at the result, that trying to forcibly interpret Hange as genderless is pointless, because we will never achieve that goal by 100%, and trying to get it anyway carries a huge cost.

So I'm in favor to mantain the Canon Policy as it's explained in the first post, and to include a section where we explain that Hange's gender is a non-canon exception taken in order to keep a coherence between text and images within the Wiki.