Thread:Support/MediaWiki:Wm-license-attribution-with-author-text/reply (4)

Hesitantly yes, but possibly better not: We may have the situation of a user name matching the name of someone else, who's an artist but not a user of that name. That might yield: either of which is not what we want, and may be arbitrarily wrong. Pat may be Patrick as well as Patricia.
 * → string is not a user name → unknown gender
 * Pat Smith → User:Pat Smith's gender

Likely, having an extra message for known users would do one trick, and another message for everyone else including people, groups of artists, companies, etc.. This 2nd message could also be using correct genders where possible, if we were to revise a design decision. See bug 27743. With it fixed, users could specify artists genders as template parameters on Commons.