[WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe

Sat Feb 19 20:43:42 UTC 2005

--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
wrote:

> The article in question is a description of a bit of
> sexual jargon or
> folklore; the kind of stuff you get on Howard Stern.
>  As it seems to me
> that it falls within the remit of the deletion
> policy
>
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary)
> I listed it.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Donkey_punch
> 
> Although the article has only been listed for only
> two days, so far there
> is a 2:1 majority vote for keep.
> In my opinion this kind of article would render
> Wikipedia difficult to
> describe as "safe for classroom use"; also teachers
> recommending it to
> younger children for homework research would be put
> at risk of censure
> because of articles like this.  Whatever those who
> voted think Wikipedia
> is, a classroom-safe reference work is clearly not
> number one on the list.
> This doesn't render Wikipedia content forever
> inaccessible to classrooms,
> however.  This and other articles of its type are in
> the category "Sex
> moves".  These could be filtered out easily during
> production of a
> classroom-safe copy of Wikipedia.

And people say the slippery slope argument is a
fallacy.  Now that it appears that we've bowdlerized
the autofellatio article, it's fair game to go after
every other article with a sexual content?

RickK

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