Investigate "gender_detector" Gem

[jrhoads]

We are not using the gender identification/assumption functionality of this gem.

Is it needed?
Are there options to replace the functionality that we do use with something else?

[richardhallett]

The part we use of this library is to check a list of names (it's a database of names basically) to see if we can guess that it's meant to be a Personal type of creator (in contrast with Organisation)

Currently being used here

bolognese/lib/bolognese/author_utils.rb

Line 111 in 3750d0d

name_exists?(author.fetch("name", "").split(" ").first)

So yes it's not using any of the gender detection, but it might be worth considering replacing with something else that can do the name check, or even perhaps do a better job.