[WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote: Toby Bartels wrote:
> >Here's a set of flags that I think would work well enough for the
> >felching article:
> 
> >sexuality
> >mature content
> >slang
> 
> >I don't see how those are very controversial.
> 
> "mature content" will definitely cause problems.
> You imply in the rest of what you write (not only in this post)
> «what some would consider to be appropriate only for the mature»,
> but not only does "mature content" not say this literally,
> but also (as somebody else pointed out) that's extremely broad,
> and includes [[Christianity]]. So it won't be of much use.

Well, I don't agree. The standards for what we mean by mature content
can be spelled out in sufficient detail and in an NPOV way so that
controversy is minimized.

But I'm not invested in that particular phrase. Perhaps we could use
'explicit sexual content' to distinguish it from 'sexuality'.
Some think that any type of 'sexuality' content should be equally be censored. Maybe that should have a seperate flag.> If I were writing the Wikipedia code, I wouldn't spend my time
> on writing support for these flags; that's better done (if at all)
> by another project that operates on top of Wikipedia

But this is important for Wikipedia the website, not just for
others.

Some people in this debate have taken a very POV position, i.e. that
wikipedia should shove this stuff down people's throats, and if
they're too prudish to deal with it, too bad ha ha. I don't agree.

--Jimbo
That creates a paradox. Any one scheme for censorship (or even flagging) is POV, while a lack of one is also POV. We're stuck. So let's choose the choice which will broaden our audience the most: flagging built into the software.

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