Talk:his

Gender-neutral as separate sense?

We have a separate sense at he for gender-neutral usage. What about here? e.g.

1. • David Hume

     On the contrary, those other passions, commonly denominated selfish, both produce different sentiments in each individual, according to his particular situation […]

Equinox ◑ 13:14, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

@Equinox: Yes, that sense should be listed. Go ahead and add it. — Eru·tuon 06:40, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 11:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

This is still just "possessive of he", and I wonder if directing users to "he" to find the info on what "he" means might make more sense than repeating the information in every inflected form, especially because there is a fair bit of info to provide (the gender-neutral use is less common / dated / sometimes offensive). I would compare how past tenses of verbs don't repeat every sense (even when some senses are dated / offensive / etc). I note that the inflected forms of they do have both plural and singular sense-lines, but for most of them (all of them except themself vs themselves, which are sometimes sense-specific), I wonder if we shouldn't offload content to the lemma. - -sche (discuss) 19:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)