Discussions on Male

Fixed!

 Wow, it's amazing that you were able to do that, in a way.  I'm going to raise some questions with the team about whether we can (or should) lock down a small handful of things like genders, to save people the stress you just went through (or prevent anyone doing it intentionally).

Sorry it took us a little while to get back to you.  Most of us are located in the US so we tend to all sleep during similar hours.

Thank you so much, you two.

I'm so glad I haven't erased the Gender property on all male persons in the database... because that's what I've been fearing.

Skud, I also wonder why users are allowed to remove instances for Gender types (in this case "Male") but not to add them (I noticed this latter particular later). I think we should be prevented/allowed "both ways", if any (prevented, I'd say, since I consider the Gender type as representing biological genders and biological genders are two and two only).

Cheunger, I'll try here to recap my actions.

I was setting the Character Gender property for a Fictional Character, but I think I was too speedy in changing property as the "Male" value was added to Fictional Universe instead (Fictional Universe being the next property I was about to set). So I came up with Fictional Universe set to the proper universe value plus this "Male" value that apparently the GUI had put in there.

My first reaction - needless to say - was that of removing "Male" from Fictional Universe. But I realized that this could have not been enough: the "Male" topic could have acquired the Fictional Universe type, so I went to "Male" and indeed found the Fictional Universe type associated to it.

Here comes my mistake, as instead of removing the type Fictional Universe I removed the Gender type. Don't ask me how could I do that, it's one of those mistake you do without realizing. I guess I didn't care too much about the name of the type I was removing because I had already removed types from other entries and they always appeared at first place. Here the first place was occupied by the Gender type and not the Fictional Universe type so I guess I've been too robotic and mindless in performing the action.

I hope I've been clear.