Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20160613004341/@comment-24863355-20160615035934

I personally believe that the issue regarding children still remains as a valid point. The "adult in a child's body" type of person is a rarity on the internet. Thanks to Sturgeon's Law, a child on this wiki is almost certainly just that - a child. As far as I know, this has gotten us into some hairy or just plain weird situations on the wiki long before COPPA hit. While this statement is mostly anecdotal (see below, an example of the latter type of situation), my point remains.

Anecdote time: About five years ago, the wiki somehow made the decision to add this fan wiki to a sister wiki section. This wiki did not exactly abide by the standards needed to become one (I might be making an understatement here), even though this was five years ago. The fan wiki was headed by a then-literally-12-to-15-years-old user. The place itself is on a downhill mess as of today. Somehow, a potentially underage user managed to convince someone (I might know who, but I'm not going to say names) with access to the main wiki stylesheet to add their fanfic to a dedicated slot on the main wiki's tabs.

My point is that a child's brain can make decisions that have the potential to become more than just an awkward situation. While the anecdote above was just a brief moment of "looks like someone screwed up," things can get way worse.

That is why I believe that children are a valid reason to create a mature content template. Sometimes the mature content is something that a child would never want to see.