User blog:Kevsuc/How we decide Cookie's gender

Recently, a lot of discussion is heating up in Cookie Run communities and fandom worshippers. Some cookies are appearing quite ambiguously and confusing, leading up to a lot of speculatives among what's their genders are. Some people have chosen to take action, commenting on how we decide genders on their CookieInfobox.

Admins have carefully discussed for this issue, and we would like to sum up on how contributors decides any Cookie's gender, historically in this Wiki for the last 2 years.


 * 1) We decides Cookie's gender from their biography commonly found in the game (including those canonical from Kakao version). Examples are their Skill, Description, Loading Messages, or their release Newsletters.
 * 2) We also accept official statements outside of the game, but only if they are released publicly. Therefore, we accept statements from official Facebook pages, but not from Customer Support replies (because anyone can forge it). They also must be properly cited or referenced before being accepted.
 * 3) We will only assume Cookie's gender if they are explicitly stated. For this reason, we usually identify any Cookie's reference for "he/him" as male, "she/her" as female, and "it" as unknown. That sounds very conservative, but we cannot prove if Cookies want to be identified differently either.
 * 4) We never assume genders based on their appearance, costume, or color. Costumes and colors doesn't have genders.
 * 5) We simply don't like to take assumptions or speculations that are not proven.

Thank you very much for numerous feedback given to admins regarding Cookie's gender stated in our infobox. Below are some of our responses based on your feedbacks:


 * 1) We agree that genders are not bisected into male or female only. Cookie Run Wiki recognizes gender diversity, and that is one of many things we support in our Policy. We also could open possibilities for other genders, but unfortunately without a solid proof, we cannot include them in our articles. (That's how Wikipedia works, right?)
 * 2) The gender information in Cookie Run Wiki is not a final "label" of any Cookie's gender, the true answer always belong to what comes in the mind of creators and visual artists working in Devsisters. The truth is out there.
 * 3) We let everyone to identify Cookie's gender, orientation, or trait in their artworks by themselves, even if it's different from what we normally identify, since we're proud of this non-binary world. Everyone can be everything, and that also belong to Cookies in all grades.
 * 4) We let people discuss about Cookie's gender, however admins always have the right to take any actions if they are breaching our Rules and Policies or when the discussion has gone into chaos.

Please, keep living up your imagination! Post your own artworks in blog pages or forum boards, and let them be read by thousands of daily visitors in Cookie Run Wiki ^^

With love, (u) (t) 19:00, January 30, 2016 (UTC)