Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Gender of телеса/reply (13)

It's quite consistent. All nouns with "anim=1" are animated and inanimate if they don't have it and it does affect both their declension and gender (anim/inanim). Spotting an incorrect declension would be easier, if all nouns belong to one or another category. In some cases the declension is unaffected with some neuters, e.g. an imaginary animated "солнце" would decline as inanimate and "чудовище", "чадо" may have alternative inanimate plural accusatives, matching nominative.

Missing animate/inanimate info has never been a problem, they are good-to-haves, not mandatory, so question marks are a bit of irritants, as you saw in the feedback (not mine). Russian is by far, not the only language that has grammatical animacy. Updating correct animacy is only done by regular users, as far as I can see. Updating with a bot is a good idea.