Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4548659-20141016234340/@comment-1669199-20141114231701

BlueSpeeder wrote: Genesjs wrote: I seem to be having some trouble using the quote button on people's posts (and making any posts in Monobook, for that matter), so it looks like I'm gonna have to do it the old-fashioned way - in Wikia skin.

@BlueSpeeder: "Why on earth should a Sonic wiki (even to an extent of a chat room) have sex organs being mentioned? I don't care if Rouge has them, it doesn't matter. Any words relating to sex shouldn't be mentioned on here."

What if its for encyclopedic purposes? For example, say an artist for Sonic Boom draws a hidden penis somewhere in the background during one frame, which would be hard to see at first glance, because their bosses at the studio did something to piss them off and the artist felt like retaliating by pulling a stunt of this nature (one of the original VHS covers of Walt Disney's "The Little Mermaid" (one of the U.S. ones, I believe) featured the golden castle that the main protagonist and many of the supporting cast resided in during certain portions of the movie, and one of the towers was drawn in such a way that, upon taking the time to really look at it, resembled a penis - as I recall, the artist for that cover did that as some form of retaliation against his bosses, although I'm not sure what as of this message. Point is, something like this happened before, with major entertainment media, and I'm sure some Wiki or two mentions this little detail somewhere on their site because, as unfortunate and "child unfriendly" as it may be, it did happen and people had every right to make a record of it.). Should we keep such information off our site because someone could look at it as inappropriate for young children? We're an encyclopedia for Sonic the Hedgehog, one that deals in facts - to ignore known facts and to not document them for subjective reasoning defeats the purpose of this site. I agree, but it hasn't happened yet. So really, unless it happens, it should remain the way mentioned above.

It really shouldn't -- should something like this actually happen, I believe it'd be a waste of time to have another site discussion to have such restrictions in mainspace removed once something like my example actually happens (if it does), as it would basically amount to us debating to each other over whether or not we should record facts that recently become apparent to us, and would undoubtedly become quite controversial -- all because some of us take offense to the fact that names for male/female anatomy are used to ocassionally describe some of the characters in some way in our articles. We really shouldn't be this sensitive about such things appearing on places like our mainspace or any number of places outside the chat, since all we're doing is just recording information.