Christopher Mahan wrote:
Mike Irwin wrote: Having Fucking Asshole and Throbbing Monster Cock in use as accounts names and spread throughout the Wikipedia greatly limits the appeal and utility of the database and site for a lot of potential users.
Agreed. We have already lost Isis because of this. Let's agree on policy & then a) removed "Fucking Asshole" (it was Ed making a point, wasn't it?) and b) insist "Throbbing Monster Cock" choose a different name
My reply:
Could pages be rated for maturity and the appropriate rating meta tag be inserted into the page header for childproofing software?
I don't see a problem in a page like "fuck" -- it discusses the etymology, history and suitability of a word which a child can find in a dictionary (and hear on television). I would much rather a child, on hearing the word, went to look it up on wikipedia to rather than mindlessly repeat it.