Guide:Orientation

 serves as a guide for formatting pages on orientations on this Wikia. Please use it as an example when creating and editing pages. A simple blurb about this orientation goes here that mentions what kind of orientation it is. Template:Orientation should be used. Check the orientation category for examples of filled out pages.

A page should be titled with the shortening of an orientation, (bi, pan, allo, and so on). In the past, pages were required to also end in a dash, but this is no longer part of the intended formatting and should be removed.

Alternate Names

 * If this gender is called by any other names, put them here.

Etymology
Origins of this label's name, even it's "obvious."

Pronunciation
How to pronounce the title of this article. This can be formatted in phonetic spelling or International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), or both. Embedding a video or audio file where someone pronounces the term is also acceptable. Easypronounciation.com has an English Phonetic Spelling Generator which may be used, but users should keep in mind it may not always be accurate and the original words a term's name is derived from should always be considered.

Definitions

 * Text goes here. Put the original text used when coining here. - Person who coined, year, citation

Additional commentary about what makes this orientation label unique here. If this orientation's ever been accidentally recoined by the same name with a different definition, talk about that here too.

History
Text goes here. Some terms have lots of discussion and years of effort behind them, this is where we'd talk about that, like how pan was mentioned in early bisexual manifestos, the progression of the pan community, etc.

Community
A wide range of things can be mentioned here, this section is for general impacts that people who identify as this term have on society. Wikipedia's similar section can be used as inspiration.This section can mention things specific to this identity's community, like ace rings to asexuals, or miscellaneous things that people of this group have achieved and contributed to that don't fall into the other sections, or be left blank.

Statistics
Examples of people actually identifying with this label or the definition of it go here. Acceptable examples include quotes from celebrities or public figures, survey results like the Gender Census, and screenshots of blogs (with permission). Fictional characters may also be added to this section if they've canonically been said to be this label.

Controversy
If there's been a specific variety of (this identity)-phobic discourse that has led to discrediting it (examples being pan, ace, etc) or if this identity is potentially genuinely harmful (quasihomo, super, etc), please detail that here. This section can also be renamed called "flag controversy" if there have been similar -phobic discourses around popular flags, examples being the racist claims around the pan flag, or the true racism and biphobia of the pink lesbian flag's creator. Like other sections, this can be left blank or removed if not applicable.

This section can cross over somewhat with the controversy section, but focuses more on the specific kinds of discrimination and oppression that these people may face. Examples would be mentioning systematic transphobia and nonbinary erasure on the page for agender, mentioning rates of mental health issues in this group, etc. Specific examples of notable transphobes or other bigots mentioning this term to mock it are acceptable as well.

Perceptions and Discrimination
This section can cross over somewhat with the controversy section, but focuses more on the specific kinds of discrimination and oppression that these people may face. Examples would be mentioning systematic transphobia and nonbinary erasure on the page for agender, mentioning rates of mental health issues in this group, etc. Specific examples of notable transphobes or other bigots mentioning this term to mock it are acceptable as well.

Orientations
This section may be edited however is necessary for the individual identity, and that may include removing this section entirely, or in the case of many aspec orientations, separating pages into romantic/sexual/etc variants entirely. This type of splitting should be done at the editor's discretion, but is mainly done to help emphasize significant differences in attraction types and the different struggles that people who are each facet of orientation. For example, an alloromantic asexual and an allosexual aromantic have similar, but yet extremely different struggles and discrimination, whereas an alloromantic bisexual and an aromantic bisexual both experience their attraction in a very similar fashion.

-Sexual
A reiteration of the definition goes here, but specifically talking about the -sexual version of this label. Examples of statistics of how many people were recorded to use this label can go in the statistics section.

-Romantic
A reiteration of the definition goes here, but specifically talking about the -romantic version of this label. Examples of statistics of how many people were recorded to use this label can go in the statistics section.

Other variants of this orientation label should be added as they're available, If -platonic, -aesthetic, -alterous, and other endings have been coined, they should be added.

Subsets

 * If there's subsets of this orientation, (like how adfectu- could be considered a subset of neuro-) put links to them here (with no description).

Flags
EVERY single flag, possibly including the 'main' one that may be put in the above template, goes here. Try to provide who made a flag and when it was introduced if that information is available. If nothing, leave blank. Information about the given meanings of the flag/s and the symbols can go here too.

Combinations
Combination flags for multiple labels would go here, ex; aromantic bisexual, transgender bi.

Coining
Any screenshots or other images related to original discussions of coining this term, if there are any, go here. If nothing, leave blank.

Other
Any other kind of image (symbols from the flag, people waving pride flags, merchandise with the flags, images used to describe the gender, cube flags, aesthetic edits, MOGAIballs, DNI banners themed after the flag that were used when posting that flag, etc) goes here. If nothing, leave blank.