Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-995426-20141101223855

First of all, I had a recent experience that had an instant chilling effect on my understanding of this wiki. We have the paradox that this wiki aims to be kid-friendly, and yet so much of the official body of TMNT publications is very much not kid-friendly at all. I've noticed that many articles on Mirage TMNT and Image TMNT issues are either red links or very incomplete. If we were to expand these articles with synopses, galleries, collections of memorable quotes, relevant trivia, etc., it might become impossible to maintain Turtlepedia as a completely kid-friendly wiki.

So, I have suggestion. If it's that important for the wiki to be hospitable to kids, but many of the works themselves will never be hospitable to kids, then it's possible that large parts of the wiki could be given content advisory warnings (in the form of page notice templates), depending on the work in question. I do not suggest that the wiki actually make itself more vulgar or profane, but that the relevant articles simply do not shy away from describing the content itself. And if this makes their content relatively more mature, these articles would need those warnings for parents to heed at their discretion and keep their young children away from those pages.

Such warnings could apply in general to the Mirage comics (adult), the Image comics (adult), and to a lesser degree the Archie comics (teen), the IDW comics (teen) and the most recent film (teen). Most of the cartoons, which were always primarily for kids, could maintain a more general rating. This way, there would be a clearer understanding of what content is more acceptable in which articles. This wiki already has a serious problem of whiplash moving between the different works and their different target audiences. If we have to protect vulnerable children, the boundaries must be clearly marked.

Some examples of published content in the adult category:
 * Open to TMNT volume 3, issue 10, page 10. The scene with Raphael in the bar in Chicago, encountering a mutant chicken man.  Raphael uses very, very colorful double entendres referencing a certain organ of a man's anatomy to describe the chicken man's appearance.
 * Open to TMNT volume 3, issue 25, page 39, at [spoiler]'s funeral. A certain turtle drops an F-bomb while threatening a certain brother with bodily harm to two specific otherwise unmentionable organs, if he dares repeat a secret just confided in him.

These are also very memorable quotes, and would seem to invite themselves in quote sections of the articles for those respective comics issues. Perhaps also in uploaded screenshots of the memorable scenes. But would they be allowed? They're not little-kid-friendly, but then again, the source material was never for little kids to begin with. It's for adults. People who may not have necessarily cared to concern themselves with what is or isn't kid-friendly, because we're not necessarily here as children or with children, but as adults with adult intelligence, adult maturity, and adult interests, such as our four favorite morally-ambiguous turtle assassins. 