[WikiEN-l] Should Wikipedia make it clear to users that it is not censored for minors?

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Tue May 16 09:16:32 UTC 2006


Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 5/16/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If people want to deter kids from coming across certain material on the
>> internet, it's their responsibility to install blocking software. Wikipedia
>> says is in BIG bold letters it's an encyclopedia. It's common sense for
>> sexual material to be included so I'm against yet another disclaimer.
> 
> Point me to another encyclopaedia with photographic images of
> erections or clitorises, and I might agree.
> 

If cameras had been around back then, Encyclopédie
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die) probably would have.

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