QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 24th February 2010, 1:32am)
Because WP, a project that encourages child and adult collaboration, does not vet participants the very least that they can do (and not sufficient) is to act with dispatch when a user sends out red flags of this kind. Once they give reason for concern the questionable user ought to bear the burden of showing they do not present a risk. This is one of the most disturbing red flags imaginable.
I think you overstate your case. Wikipedia neither encourages nor discourages "child and adult collaboration". Indeed it's often impossible to tell who's the child and who's the adult.
Surely the only possible real world danger that a wikipedia encounter might involve would come from private email communications?
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