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dtobias
This will fit right in one of the common WR tropes:

The Apple iTunes store just notified me that an update was available to "Wikipanion", one of several Wikipedia apps I have on my iPhone for displaying Wikipedia entries in various formats. When I clicked to download it, I got a popup saying "This application contains material that may be objectionable to children", and that if I continued the download I was certifying that I was 17 years old or older. Since these apps get their content from Wikipedia, I presume this warning was based on Wikipedia itself not always being "safe" for minors (WP:NOT Censored, and all).
Moulton
There you have it. Wikipedia not only contains material objectionable to children, it also contains material objectionable to the overwhelming majority of adult educators and perhaps a majority of the adult BLP subjects.
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