Help talk:Suggestion mode

secondary noun for a non-binary person name

Translating Help:Suggestion_mode/en into Japanese, I wonder: For Translations:Help:Suggestion_mode/79, is it a global standard how we treat the secondary noun for a non-binary person name [1]? Is it not too USA-centric?

Appreciate your input what reference page(s) indicate how we localize it. --Omotecho (talk) 03:18, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Omotecho. My apologies for the delayed reply. That string is describing some of the custom local suggestions (Czech Wikipedia only) that they have configured. They are not global types. -- If I understand correctly based on a machine-translation, their suggestion (which is located here in their config) just highlights various common ways of writing a few phrases that include "you" (the grammatical second person, cf. w:en:Grammatical person) in the Czech language. They created this local suggestion-type because it is generally not appropriate to address "the reader" ("you") directly within Wikipedia articles. -- Therefore, you could alternatively translate it as something like, "a check for phrases that include the word "you"". Whether or not you need to use gendered (or non-gendered) alternative ways of writing "you" in Japanese would be a language-dependent decision that I'm not familiar with, as English doesn't have gendered "you". I hope that helps to clarify things! Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 22:04, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

In fact, the rule detects verbs, not pronouns. I have changed it in the message, and I'll consider changing the 'you' identifier. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:05, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek, thank you for the input, that is very insightful and, aha, verbs! Case closed for me, (= --Omotecho (talk) 06:48, 14 June 2026 (UTC)