[WikiEN-l] Should Wikipedia make it clear to users that it is not censored for minors?

[Jimmy Wales]

Prasad J wrote:
> Be that as it may, don't we still have an ethical responsibility to do
> what we can to deter kids from coming across adult-meterial?

We have an ethical responsibility to treat sensitive topics with
seriousness and deep respect.

We have discussed in the past having some sort of categorization for
"adult material" but realized that there is no neutral way to do it.
What we do instead is have neutral, factual categories that leave it up
to filtering companies or whoever to do as they like.

We can reach no consensus on whether or not a particular article is
suitable for children.  We can reach consensus on whether or not a
particular article is about human sexuality or crime or drugs.

Now, my own view is that even among extremely conservative parents, even
wikipedia articles on fairly hair-raising topics are sufficiently
factual and dull that *if* their children are searching on the internet
for the topic, the parents should be quite happy that the kids come
across wikipedia instead of something else.




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