From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Ilya N.
I'd like to quickly butt in to point out that
I'm 14 and
totally not happy with the pedophile thing.
Yes, we should require maturity. In older times, the
encyclopedists were the finest academics of all time.
Why not cut vandals some slack? I mean they don't know that
adding a penis to an article is harming a reputable resource.
They think it's fun. So why ban them?
Having a bit of fun on your user page and doing the same thing in
articlespace are two quite different things. Judging by accepted community
standards here, adding a penis to (say) [[George W Bush]] is quickly
reverted, but doing the same on your user page won't spur anyone to quickly
revert you.
Peter (Skyring)