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#Pages for counterparts to/variations of existing terms (eg: -romantic, -tertiary, -girl, -flux, demi- variations/counterparts) and pages for combination identities will be held to the same standards in terms of their history sections and resources as any other identity. Counterparts/variations and combination terms may not be coined via the creation of an article.

#Pages should not be created for counterparts to/variations of terms where the "original" term or it's counterpart/variation is exclusive to a group that the creator is not part of; pages should not be created for combination identities where one or more of the terms being combined are exclusive to a group that the creator is not part of.

#It must be clear which term the counterpart/variation is based on, or, for combination identities, it must be clear which terms are being combined.

#It will be at the discretion of a given coiner whether to separate variations/counterparts onto separate pages or not, though counterparts/variations should ideally be mentioned in the body of a term's article.

#Pages for combinations of two terms may be created if significant or unique information is provided (i.e: the page cannot simply state that [combination term] is when one identifies with both [term 1] and [term 2]). Pages for three terms may be created if the three identities are thematically connected due to having the same prefix (eg: aroace agender).

#Credit must be provided wherever appropriate. All coiners involved in creating identities must be credited, including the coiner of the term that the variation/counterpart is based on or the coiner(s) of any identities that are being used to create a combination term. The coiner - if there is one - of the the variation/counterpart/combination term should also be credited.

#One must have created the term that the counterpart/variation is based on, or both/all three terms being combined, and/or have received explicit permission from the coiner(s) of any terms that one did not coin oneself to create a variation/counterpart/combination identity using said term(s) (proof of permission must be provided via screenshots uploaded to a gallery or an archived link provided as a resource).

#Terms in a system must be listed on the main system page, and any pages for terms within a system should mention and link the main system page.

#As long as all pages contain proper resourcing, history sections and crediting, and the terms are all unique, the creator of a system and its terms can decide whether to create separate pages for each term in their system, regardless of the number of terms in the system or how much information is contained in the terms' definitions (as long as it's more than "[term] is a term in the [term system]").

#If on a separated page, further variations or subsets of a term in a system (eg, terms where the definition is just that it is a -flux, -girl, -demi, etc, version of the term) should ideally be kept on the same page as said term rather than separated onto another page, unless said variations/subsets contain a significant amount of different/unique information, in which case they may be separated. This is, however, largely up to the discretion of the coiner.

#One may not coin terms or create "sub-systems" and add them under other coiners' term systems without consent, unless there are no concerns over coiners having terms added to their systems without permission, such as if a coiner has publicly stated that their terms may be used in this way (in which case a reference confirming as such should be present on the main page for the term system).

#If a term is added to a system without explicit coiner consent, terms should still "make sense" within, and be appropriate additions to, that system.

#Do not edit pages in a way that (fundamentally or otherwise) changes the definition of a term unless you are the coiner, or are doing so with permission from the coiner. This includes: adding additional aspects to the term that wasn't intended in the coining, removing information regarding the term's definition, completely changing the definition, etc. This will be taken very seriously.

#Do not "coin" terms with the same name as a term that has already been coined, regardless of whether said term has a page on the wiki. This especially applies to terms being "coined" after November 10th, 2021, and it applies regardless of where the term was "coined". For example, do not make a page for a term someone coined on Tumblr two days ago, if a term by that same name was actually originally coined six months ago.

#Do not make a page for an identity where the definition is identical to that of a pre-existing term, unless there is a significant reason for doing so.

#Do not rename pages or change the primary name used in a page, unless: you are the creator of the term, the community has ''widely'' agreed on the new name, the name is incorrect/spelled wrong, or you are otherwise making it compliant with the [[LGBTA Wiki:Style Guide|style guide]].

#You may add alternate names for terms, however, this should only be done with coiner consent if possible, and if a coiner does not want alternate names created for their terms, this should be respected.

#Any coiner should reserve the right to have recoined information/secondary definitions removed from their terms' pages.

#To emphasize, alternate definitions and recoinings should never be created intentionally, and will not be accepted in any form if added/coined after November 10th, 2021 - any information that wasn't present at the original coining should only be recorded if necessary for the sake of archiving and preserving a term's history and/or at the request of a term's coiner.

#For terms that were independently coined by multiple users before November 10th, 2021, it may be possible to include said multiple definitions on a page, however, the different definitions must be clearly separated and individually credited, rather than combined in any way.

#A term should be archived with its original intended definition, aside from in exceptional circumstances where additional information is very significant, in which case information added via recoinings may potentially be included on a page. However, there must be a clear distinction made between the original definition and any recoined information, and this should only ever be included if it is significant to the evolution of/the widely-accepted understanding of a term.

#The first/original coining of a term should always be listed first in an article if possible, unless another definition is widely accepted as the definition of the term, or the definition has evolved over time to a point where it would make much more sense to list it as the first definition on the page (though this should be avoided except in exceptional circumstances), in which case the original definition should still be clearly stated and credited on the page as the original coining).