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Consider removing GENDER from Notification-dynamic-actions-mute-page-linked and Notification-dynamic-actions-unmute-page-linked
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I usually ask to add GENDER support to messages, but in the case of Notification-dynamic-actions-mute-page-linked and Notification-dynamic-actions-unmute-page-linked I think that it perhaps should be removed.

The action is an imperative or bare infinitive verb for an action that is requested by the human and performed by the software. We don't have gender for Edit, Move, Delete, and many other such buttons, and I don't think that we should have it for Mute.

However, if anyone thinks that these are substantially different and should have gender, feel free to decline.

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Amire80 created this task.May 29 2020, 9:30 AM
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If GENDER support removed from them, other messages like notification-dynamic-actions-watch or notification-header-mention-success should be considered as well. By the way, {{GENDER:|he|she|they}} (i.e., without a parameter) works in all MediaWiki messages to use the gender of the current user, doesn’t it? If it does, parameters can safely be removed, as eventual languages that need gender support can reintroduce the magic word without using any parameter.

Amire80 added a comment.May 29 2020, 9:57 AM
In T253975#6176263, @Tacsipacsi wrote:

If GENDER support removed from them, other messages like notification-dynamic-actions-watch or notification-header-mention-success should be considered as well. By the way, {{GENDER:|he|she|they}} (i.e., without a parameter) works in all MediaWiki messages to use the gender of the current user, doesn’t it? If it does, parameters can safely be removed, as eventual languages that need gender support can reintroduce the magic word without using any parameter.

It's clearly needed in Notification-header-mention-success, at least for some languages, although it's possible that the {{GENDER:|your-m|your-f|your-n}} notation can be used instead of having a parameter in the source message.

I'm not sure about Notification-dynamic-actions-watch.

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