Whether or not the editor is indeed thirteen years old is probably relatively unimportant.

What matters is that voices in the RfC generally (about 3:1) oppose the idea of a minimum age of 18 for contributors to the WikiProject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#RfC:_Should_underage_editors_be_topic_banned_from_articles_in_the_WikiProject_Pornography_topic_area.3F

Andreas

--- On Fri, 23/9/11, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] 13 year old joins WP Pornography?
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Friday, 23 September, 2011, 21:24

What are some questions we could ask the user that only a real 13 year
old would know?

Actually, I have a better idea, let's ask him "Who founded Wikipedia?" :)

Ryan Kaldari

On 9/23/11 1:04 PM, Michael J. Lowrey wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Sarah Stierch<sarah.stierch@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Entertaining...bizarre...scary...odd? Real? fake?
>>
>> Don't get me wrong. If Wikipedia was around when I was 14, I so would have
>> joined WP:Feminism. But, I was a 14 year old riot grrrl using BBSes. ;-)
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kim Bruning<kim@bruning.xs4all.nl>
>> Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM
>> Subject: [Foundation-l] Larry Sanger tweets about 13 yo in Wikiproject
>> Pornography
>> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>>
>> "Dear Press: a self-described 13 YO joined Wikiproject Pornography.
>> Wikipedians support him. webcitation.org/61v0ykxJe
>> webcitation.org/61v1FfW3K"
>>         - http://twitter.com/#!/lsanger/status/117299089439334400
>>
>>
>> The on-wiki argument is that there are many areas in that project that don't
>> actually involve nudie pics, but rather cover
>> areas of law, etc.<scratches head>
>>
>> sincerely,
>>         Kim Bruning
> Even before Sanger got involved in publicizing this to the press, I
> was suspicious that this was some kind of agente provocateur thing.
> The supposed 13-year-old hasn't actually been doing much of anything.
>

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