Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-5645428-20161128000548/@comment-27805055-20161129001505

Foremost, Wikia does state in the Terms of Use that you must be 13 years of age to create an account. If someone not 13 years of age were to join the wiki, in due course the chat, them seeing a swear would be their gaurdian's (or gaurdians') fault.

After some research I have found that swears are typically broken up into 3 categories: sacrilegious, scatological, and sexually vulgar. Anything that fits under the "sexually vulgar" category should be banned, obviously. However sacrilegious & scatological swears are a bit different.

Anything sacrilegious should be allowed since no rules should be based on a religion's limitation or guideline. "Goddamn," for example, should be allowed although it is sacrilegious.

The usage of scatological swears should be permitted to a certain extent. Saying "Crap, I got 94% on ___" is no reason to ban or punish someone. But other rather extreme swears that belong to this category is a reason for punishment.

Basically, in my opinion, the wiki's "No: abundant use of mild profanity or regular use of extreme profanity or use of any profanity directed towards another user" semi-policy that was accepted by a few staff members is better than simply banning or allowing all swears.