Sure - you seemed to be arguing that MA cannot refer to Adira as non binary because it's not canonical enough for you (as per the Talk page), but then you also said that as soon as Sanctuary aired, MA changed the page entirely too reflect that they were non binary. So I'm confused. Are you saying that the changes were wrong and should have been left as female? And if they weren't, why is there a problem here at all?
OK, I understand... it may have not been clear, but Adira's page, when it was originally created, read "Adira Tal was a female Human who...". In fact, iirc, we didn't even know that Adira was bound to a Trill symbiont, so the page was at "Adira" and the first sentence read "Adira was a female Human who..." and all the pronouns were she/her. This was based purely on observation, although we knew from publicity that Adira was non-binary. We figured the writers would reveal the correct gender (non-binary) at some point, but our spoiler policy doesn't let us reveal stuff until it's shown in an episode on-screen. That's the same reason that even if we know ahead of time that, say, a character is going to die, we don't change their status until the episode in which they actually die. Not exactly the same, but close enough.
Along the way, the first sentence was modified to say "Adira Tal was a Human who...", removing female from the text. I'm not sure who did it or when, but keep in mind MA is a wiki, and that page got lots of attention from its inception. I'd have to go back to the page history to see. The sidebar, though, remained as "Gender: Female" for whatever reason; the gender *probably* should have been removed from the sidebar as well at that point, but I don't think it was. Eventually, when Sanctuary aired, we changed the sidebar to read "Gender: Non-binary". That was based purely on the background info and was a bending of our rules so we could both be accurate and meet the desires/wishes/needs/demands of the LGBTQ community, of which we were both aware and sensitive.
"Non-binary" never made it into the first sentence, though, for whatever reason, and we decided to hold off on adding it until an acceptable canon resource confirmed it, leaving it in the sidebar as a compromise. Please understand that when I say "acceptable canon resource" I'm referring to our resource policy, not "what's acceptable to the LGBTQ community" or "what's acceptable to Renegade54" or "what's acceptable to the MA admins" or "what's acceptable to trans/enby/homophobes" (ok, so we'd probably opt instead for "what's unacceptable to trans/enby/homophobes" instead).
Clear? tl;dr?
I'd have to go through a whole slew of old forum and talk page discussions to answer that fully and properly. I *do* know it was discussed ad infinitum. I'm guessing that when the mirror universe was first named on MA, way before DS9 aired, it was what they came up with, and it was never changed after DS9 aired? Or perhaps it was referred to as "mirror universe" somewhere else (production source, another web site, etc.) and we adopted the usage. I also do know that the canon and resource policies were a *lot* looser in the early days; a lot of what we now consider non-canon or apocryphal information was eliminated from the body of articles (and in most cases, moved to background sections). Since MA launched, the policies and guidelines have been fleshed out and tightened up immensely, although it's often hard to walk the line between too many rules and not enough. You'd be amazed at how often someone makes an edit and says "there's no rule saying I can't do that"... and then others say "Memory Alpha has too many damn rules! and the admins are assholes!!" Well, yeah, sometimes we are... :P
