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 [[Cunnilingushttp://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@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Youngest editor? To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: d170bafc0706080853s36f90e36i38f13dde2ed1663f@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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@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