Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30325285-20171010234010/@comment-995426-20171111190349

These warning signs? I wrote them a few years back, after an incident some years back after I started editing Mirage articles at Turtlepedia. When I wrote about how Michelangelo and Seri "mated," I was asked not to use such explicit language ("mating" was explicit?), because children could be reading and the wiki could get complaints form their parents. I found that especially curious considering the source material was never for children, and contains all sorts of kid-unfriendly stuff. We eventually came to an agreement that we could describe adult TMNT comics in source-appropriate terms, kid-unfriendly language and most scenery included (some was too explicit for Wikia, period, which is why I had to add so many black bars to File:Bodycount violence.png and obscure the mutilated corpse in File:Mutant turtle in the morgue.png), but mature articles would have to be clearly labeled for that purpose. At first I wrote warning templates that read as awkwardly as cigarette health warnings, and as I put them up on articles, I quickly realized that they resembled "badges of shame." I didn't want to stigmatize the articles or give the wrong impression that they were like the adult section at a video rental store, so I rewrote the templates with language more resembling the way they appear now, with informal language as if coming from one of the "big kids" (like Casey or Raphael) who spots a younger kid wandering into a party. And since Turtlepedia is not a ratings bureau and couldn't exactly be responsible for rating every individual comics issue or TV episode for content, we established which series delves into which level of content, and used the template for all the theatrical movies along with all the Archie and IDW comics and Palladium RPGs, and used the  template for all the Mirage and Image comics. Much more recently, I extended to Ninjara: Seed of Destruction and its associated Archie characters when it became blatantly apparent that  would be inadequate.