Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-18014300-20180717074641/@comment-18014300-20180719002946

Master Sima Yi wrote: I'm a bit disappointed the discussed option of the term "active" over "floruit" is not being listed as an option here. Like I have mentioned over on Discord, this is my preferred option as it is much more clear to non-native English speakers and non-academics (as you clearly mention it is an academic term, and I see no reason why we need to be academical). I'm very opposed to using any sort of term where I have to look up what it means when a much more clear option is available.

In this regard, I agree with Jasca that this stays in the infobox only, as it may give the wrong indication (and has for me in the past on Wikipedia) when it's listed next to a birth or death date, or in their place. I thought that I was the only one who had considered that the infobox parameter where we might indicate "active" should also be named floruit. I changed my mind after recalling that "active" is a commonly used parameter for biographical profiles, and I thought it made more sense for floruit to be reserved as a notation. Because of this, I figured it was no longer a matter being debated, and aside from that, it's a bit of a different matter aside from whether to even use floruit as a notation in the first place. I wanted to keep this thread simple.