[Wikipedia-l] What the front page of the wikipedia needs is a warning for children

Thu Nov 14 10:02:18 UTC 2002

> So you don't like that wording? Leave off the first sentence then.

So it would just be "Please supervise your children's access"? No way, that
would imply that we take the POV that supervision of children's learning is
necessary to prevent them from looking at "bad information", something I am
strongly opposed against. Children should have access to all the information
they want, what they should also have is understanding parents who can explain
to them what it means. Moral behavior cannot be taught, it can only be lived
by example through affectionate parenting.

> MOST of the articles in the wikipedia are
> noncontrovertial, but not all of them, and the odds are high that it
> wouldn't occur to a lot of parents that this is the case.

Then these parents need better education. An encyclopedia can be expected to
cover human knowledge, much of which is certainly controversial.

> Articles in
> the wikipedia come up in Google all the time and while it's great for
> Junior to be able to find information on Golden Retriever dogs or the
> History of Great Britain or the Lesser Spotted Warbler, the kid can go
> from there to anything else in the wikipedia... 

Gasp, so they might learn about anal sex? What a horrible thought! What a
terrible idea for them to be prepared when they actually have sexual
experiences. The history of Great Britain is certainly a story for the whole family,
what with all the murder, rape and bloodshed during the colonization.

So let's give parents better "tools" to prevent children from being informed
about sexual matters. Is that your logic? If so, I don't share it, and
neither do I believe it is NPOV.

> But I'm not going to sit here and argue about it. I've got MUCH better
> things to do with my evening.

Your evening is my morning. It's 11 AM here.

Regards,

Erik

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