Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Wizkid357/Wiki Preteen

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The result of the debate was close early and Delete, for obvious reasons. El_C 15:14, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Wizkid357/Wiki Preteen

This has been admited openly to be a way to recruiting preteens. evidence Bad idea. -- Drini 21:02, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Delete - per nom - and participants laissez faire attitude about the dangers confirms that this is a bad idea and worries me --Trödel 21:14, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete encouraging younger users to take part in editing wikipedia is a good idea, but sadly the internet is not a safe place for this. Listing all young users is a bad idea and could be used by the wrong people.--Andeh 21:18, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Meh, thanks a lot WikiPedia. Well, I guess the page is screwed. Look, I guess your right. Preteens are smarter than the just too young and don't know enough not to give out personal info. We're pretty capable. I am a preteen, not some exploiting wierdo. Anyway, I guess I was wrong, WikiPedia can hardly treat minors with as much respect. Anyway, I'm thinking of quitting WikiPedia, I thought they would understand. Julz, AKA wizkid357
• Delete. In a perfect world, I'd be fine with this. Unfortunetly we don't live in a perfect world, and I can see how someone could misuse this. This is not meant to accuse anyone involved of wrongdoing here, of course, but I just don't want to take the chance of someone getting hurt. BryanG^(talk) 06:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment This leaves the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Youth Foundation. Is this authorized? Is the fact that its cutoff is 17 instead of 13 enough of a reason to allow it? --M@rēino 17:47, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Reply Frankly that one worries me too - but there is a huge jump in maturity from 10 to 15 or from 12 to 14 even. I think the risks associated with establishing that kind of an identity should be clearly outlined on the project page. --Trödel 18:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
  • OK, I added a warning message to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Youth Foundation that should cover the basics. --M@rēino 00:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Good succinct summary --Trödel 02:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. First of all, Wikipedia is expressly not for children to even use, let along edit. Elementary schools, which (in the USA) go up to about age 12 or 12½, don't allow free acces to the web, but to the extent that they do, I would certainly hope they don't allow access to Wikipedia. This is not a knock on the 'pedia but just a statement that we will and do cover, um, adult subjects. And we don't really want a public and active preteen presence, it would put us under pressure to water down some of our content, maybe. Second of all, there have been known pedophiles edit wikipedia. As a WP:PAW member I don't really want this page around for practical and political reasons. Herostratus 03:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment- project seems to have been closed down by its creator, so delete. ~ c. tales *talk* 03:13, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.