From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of STEFAN
CLAUDIU TIULEA
--- Peter Mackay <peter.mackay(a)bigpond.com>
wrote:
Perhaps young
scamp Joeyramoney was being serious when he
declared his
love for children, and he meant someone about his
age, rather than
what we older and wiser folk might at first imagine. Perhaps he was
having a bit of a laugh at our expense.
I can understand why some O&W editors wanted to shoot him
and scatter
his ground up ashes into the Rhine, but I cannot
condone
this sort of
behaviour.
Children, as in this case, are usually defined as those under
13. If an adult has sex with a teen between 13 and 17, it is
defined as underage sex.
I thank you for your detailed explanation, but in this case I think that an
16YO boy with a pronounced sense of the absurd wasn't thinking along the
same lines as yourself, an "older and wiser" editor.
I'm coming around to the view that while some userboxes serve a useful
purpose, and some are just plain silly and harmless, we should draw the line
at those that touch on sex, politics or religion, because the potential for
abuse, misunderstanding and incivility is too great.
Peter (Skyring)