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bwburke94
(Y2: Electric Boogaloo)
rjd1922
Since: May, 2013
2020-01-08 10:52:08
Gendered redirects CAN be used on pages when appropriate, but both entries should be under the default name since there are two, one of which is male.
Keet cleanup
GnomeTitan
Since: Aug, 2013

The trope page for As Himself adds "a.k.a. As Herself" to the page title.
I know that many tropes have an "official" name which uses the male gender, with a female redirect for the obvious reasons. Does that mean that the male version takes precedence?
I'm asking because there's an example on NYPD Blue which originally referred to one woman appearing as herself, and it was accordingly headed "As Herself". But now a second example has been added under the same heading, this time about a man. So there's one male and one female example under the heading "As Herself".
What's wiki policy about this? Should the heading be kept or changed to "As Himself"? None is really better than the other. I'm inclined to leave it as is, but I'm wondering if "As Herself" counts as a redirect and, as such, shouldn't be used unless it's necessary to avoid confusion?