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+== Opening post ==
+Opening this as suggested by [[User:WaltK]]. There isn't currently an opening post draft that I know of, but then, this isn't so much a new proposal as the revival of an ongoing point of community discussion from before the Forums' collapse.
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+The issue is simple. [[Tardis:ParentPage|The Wiki isn't "family-friendly", because the DWU isn't]]. But that is no reason to knowingly inconvenience or even harm our readers by letting them stumble upon shocking or triggering information by chance on pages where common-sense, from the perspective of the not-we, didn't lead one to expect it. Who visits the page of [[Dodo Chaplet]] expecting to read about her contracting an STD? Is it fair on people unfamiliar with ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> infamous reputation to hit them with an image [[:File:Chang.jpg|like this]], uncontextualised?
+Our status as an [[Tardis:In-universe perspective|in-universe Wiki]] makes this hard — but not insurmountable. Hatnotes of various kinds, spoiler tags, {{tlx|invalid}} tags are all already designed to quickly frame a page's content for readers who've just clicked on it. The solution, then, may be in templates for content warnings and trigger warnings, which could, as the case requires, be included at the top of a page or in a particular section. They would need to be noticeable, but not so large, of course, that their prominence becomes triggering in itself. Aside from their design, the other big question is how broad to make them — how many possible triggers/offensive elements to award warnings to, and how to decide which pages get them.
+To give but one example of the sorts of questions we must examine: I don't think anyone would disagree that e.g. stories, and in-universe pages citing those stories, that discuss sexual assault should get TWs; but things quickly get more complicated. Tagging systems on, say, writing sites like Archive Of Our Own filter concepts like "character deaths", but the fact is that although it's often bloodless, at least one minor character is likely to die in ''any'' given episode of ''Doctor Who''. [[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|"Just this once, ''everybody lives''!" was special for a reason]]. We ''could'' dab any story with a character death in it anyway, I suppose, but that would risk diluting the noteworthiness of the content warnings, and make people who don't mind the occasional bloodless laser-blast overlook warnings on other pages that they really, really should have paid attention to.
+So, here's the proposal, here are the problems. (Primarily, this thread should discuss the ''how'' more than the ''whether'' — I think the necessity of having such templates to ''some'' degree is sort of a no-brainer at this point. But of course, if someone has an impassioned argument against the whole concept to make, they ''can'' air it out here too if they want.) [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 12:23, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
+== Discussion ==
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