QUOTE(lilburne @ Mon 12th March 2012, 10:13am)
Lets put it this way.
There is this web site where people upload and curate pornographic images in the name of educational value. Within that site there is a social networking system of discussing things on talk pages, IRC channels, and email contacts. The site has no age limits and 15 year old kids and younger are amongst those curating the pornography. The wider community sees no problem with even confirmed 13 year old children editing articles on pornography. The most vociferous defenders of all aspects of pornography are found to have a particular interest in sexualized images of subjects that appear to be of school age. At least one of the people in the mix has been convicted of distributing child pornography and has his own website dedicated to pornography and his right to participate with children on the site is defended.
The web site in question gains a proportion of its revenue from its tax exempt status.
And we know how many 13 year-olds there are doing this how?
And presumably you're also stating that there should be no adult topics on WP on the off-chance that an under-age viewer comes across it, or edits it?
Sorry, but I don't believe that too much information is ever a bad thing, regardless of how old the kid is. In any case, if the kid is making reasonable quality edits then there's a good chance that he's mature enough to deal with the subject matter.
Incidentally, I say this as a father of two.