[WikiEN-l] Youngest editor?

[Dick Clark]

Practice civility, please.

With regards to the issue, I believe the point was that Wikipedia's mission
does not include "protecting kids." That isn't to say that individual
Wikipedia editors don't think it is noble to protect kids. The point is that
this sort of consideration is not properly used in discussions about
Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Wikipedia is not censored, but that
doesn't mean that Wikipedia couldn't embed tags in articles with explicit
content to allow third-party filters to recognize it as such.

We at Wikipedia are not to be censors, but it isn't against Wikipedia policy
to facilitate or allow content control by third parties for their own user
base. Hence, with regards to parents, we can expect that they would want to
keep their children from viewing, say, the contents of
[[Cunnilingus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunnilingus>]],
but this doesn't mean that the content ought not be included for fear that
children will circumvent their parents' restrictions.

DickClarkMises



Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 16:53:17 +0100
> From: Vee <vee.be.me at gmail.com>
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> Oh shut up. That's such complete rubbish. *You* may feel that you don't
> have
> a responsibility to others, but some of us do.
>
> On 08/06/07, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to interrupt this. It isn't our mission to protect kids. We are
> > here to write an encyclopedia, not crowd management or a day care
> service.
> > Everyone is responsible only of themselves.
> >      - White Cat