<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Jimmy Wales <jwales@bomis.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Toby Bartels wrote:<BR>> >Here's a set of flags that I think would work well enough for the<BR>> >felching article:<BR>> <BR>> >sexuality<BR>> >mature content<BR>> >slang<BR>> <BR>> >I don't see how those are very controversial.<BR>> <BR>> "mature content" will definitely cause problems.<BR>> You imply in the rest of what you write (not only in this post)<BR>> «what some would consider to be appropriate only for the mature»,<BR>> but not only does "mature content" not say this literally,<BR>> but also (as somebody else pointed out) that's extremely broad,<BR>> and includes [[Christianity]]. So it won't be of much use.<BR><BR>Well, I don't agree. The standards for what we mean by mature content<BR>can be spelled out in sufficient detail and in an NPOV way so that<BR>controversy is minimized.<BR><BR>But I'm not invested in that
particular phrase. Perhaps we could use<BR>'explicit sexual content' to distinguish it from 'sexuality'.</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Some think that any type of 'sexuality' content should be equally be censored. Maybe that should have a seperate flag.
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">> If I were writing the Wikipedia code, I wouldn't spend my time<BR>> on writing support for these flags; that's better done (if at all)<BR>> by another project that operates on top of Wikipedia<BR><BR>But this is important for Wikipedia the website, not just for<BR>others.<BR><BR>Some people in this debate have taken a very POV position, i.e. that<BR>wikipedia should shove this stuff down people's throats, and if<BR>they're too prudish to deal with it, too bad ha ha. I don't agree.<BR><BR>--Jimbo</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>That creates a paradox. Any one scheme for censorship (or even flagging) is POV, while a lack of one is also POV. We're stuck. So let's choose the choice which will broaden our audience the most: flagging built into the software.<p><hr SIZE=1>
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