User blog:Gilgameshkun/Realignment of Template:Teen

Currently, the above template, Template:Teen, occupies a certain nebulous area of usage in Turtlepedia articles, used for all versions of TMNT intended neither for audiences of young children (such as the various television series), nor only for adult audiences (Mirage's City at War, Mirage volume 2, Bodycount, Ninjara: Seed of Destruction, Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight, etc.), the latter of which contain significant gore, nudity or particularly disturbing subject matter and already use the separate Template:Mature. As such, the Teen template is used for articles pertaining to the vast majority of comics as well as practically all of the theatrical films.

However, as the template implies that these versions of TMNT may not be suitable for younger audiences at all, it would seem to imply an alignment with the common (U.S.-based) content ratings of TV-14 for television, PG-13 for film, and T for video games. And yet some of the articles carrying the Teen template are for works intended to still be highly accessible to children, including PG-rated films.

What I've been thinking of, is: So, to summarize, the only real changes I'm suggesting are that articles pertaining to the Golden Harvest/Imagi films be considered effectively kid-friendly and no longer be Teen-flagged, but that Aska's article and possibly the Super NES Tournament Fighters article should probably be Teen-flagged. Thoughts?
 * First of all, remove the Teen template from articles pertaining to PG-rated films, including the first three Golden Harvest-produced 1990s films and the Imagi-produced 2007 film. The 2014 and 2016 films were rated PG-13, and would remain Teen-flagged.
 * The Palladium Books tabletop RPGs based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness should remain Teen-flagged, as they were specifically not recommended for players under 12 anyway.
 * Most video game articles (and almost certainly for all articles of games rated E or E-10+) should still be considered kid-friendly, except for specifically T-rated entries like Mutants in Manhattan which should be Teen-flagged.
 * One notable exception would be Aska's article, because her appearance in the Japanese version of Super NES Tournament Fighters was very decidedly not kid-friendly, with more significant emphasis on her boobs and buns and a victory animation with highly exaggerated jiggle physics, but still of course needs to be described. Though Turtlepedia is an English language wiki, it may also be necessary for the article for the game itself to be Teen-flagged if we consider the article to cover all different international versions of the game including the Japanese version.  This may not necessarily have to extend to other articles pertaining to this game&mdash;just Aska and the game itself.  I think it might be a good idea for this issue to be discussed further in order to reach a consensus.
 * For comics, this becomes murkier, as most TMNT comics have traditionally not been explicitly content-rated but for the most part have also never been meant for children.
 * My general thinking on the matter is that the Mirage, Image and IDW comics which are already Teen-flagged should remain Teen-flagged.
 * The biggest wild card is the Archie continuity, which gradually went from kid-friendly to increasingly mature to a specifically adult audience spinoff. Since we are Not A Ratings Bureau™, it wouldn't seem appropriate for Turtlepedia to judge each article's content friendliness on a case-by-case basis.  My tentative view would be to split the Archie continuity into three logical, well-defined categories for content flagging:
 * Everything before issue #5 (Something Fishy Goes Down) were direct adaptations of 1987 TV series episodes, and their articles as well as articles pertaining to subject material appearing only in those issues should be treated as kid-friendly and not be Teen-flagged.
 * Everything else published by Archie Comics from issue #5 onward represents when Dean Clarrain became head writer and the series started developing an increasingly mature tone and subject matter. This would naturally also include later continuity material published by IDW, such as Paper or Plastic?  All of this should be Teen-flagged.
 * Needless to say, the separately-published Clarrain-written Ninjara: Seed of Destruction should remain Mature-flagged.