Gregory Kohs <thekoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for confirming your opinion that the Foundation cannot and > should not find within its means to even formulate some > recommendations and guidelines to help steer the activities of > children on Wikimedia projects, because that is something that parents > alone should be doing on a case-by-case basis.
Well, let's keep in mind what's really going on here is that a lot of Wikipedians are in fact rather young people - teenagers or recent teenagers - all of whom have to some degree a latent uncomfortable grievance against the coddling and growth-stunting mentalities often associated with "good parenting." But to be fair, some also seem to have some good ideas about how exactly to use the web - both as a means to help themselves and to help others. So your point about this vague concept called "social responsibility," and how Wikipedia might need some of it, may be falling on some deaf ears - even if it is quite valid. Your straw man argument may not have helped much though, and probably violates some general rule (or "law"). Anyhow both sides seem here to be under some illusion that Wikipedia and its "freedoms" allow the manifestation of expressions that exceed common sense. We still do employ common sense, though attempts to document those sensibilities as a principle have thus far been thwarted: There is always the fear that any new "principle" will be written in some unprincipled way - such as to either undermine the aberrations that people like, or to promote the principles that people don't. And actually that self-fellatio image looks also like an OR violation. -Stevertigo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
