[WikiEN-l] Content Advisory (was The Kils-Viking thing)
Michael Becker
wikipedia at jumpingjackweb.com
Wed Jun 4 02:03:12 UTC 2003
How about something like this:
Attention: As with any web-site, children may require parent
supervision.
--
Michael Becker
-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Jimmy Wales
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7.18
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The Kils-Viking thing
Erik Moeller wrote:
> A disclaimer would IMHO send the wrong signal; some people would
> believe
> that we only say this because we have lost control over the content of
> Wikipedia (a totally open site after all) and people are posting
> pornography all over the place. We do not allow pornographic content,
but
> we do allow human knowledge that some people might consider offensive
-- I
> think that goes with the territory.
The wrong sort of disclaimer would certainly send the wrong signal, but
I don't think it's impossible to come up with something soft and
tasteful.
--Jimbo
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