Bill Konrad said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
Suppose we had a rule saying "no use of the word 'sparrow'".
Now you're just being even more exagerratedly silly.
Absolutely not. I'm trying to illustrate that it is technically easier for a group that has a specific need for bowdlerized content to filter existing unbowdlerized content than to require all editors to edit to yet another limitation of their expression, and that instruction creep of this kind is both undesirable (because it limits appropriate use of certain words, concepts and images) and unnecessary (because only the group in question knows at any given time what it does and does not find acceptable to it).