User blog comment:Acardwell415/Introducing Wikia's Parent Filter/@comment-4018164-20130913153312/@comment-13020594-20130913182011

I totally get where you're coming from, but sometimes for parents, hearing about or knowing of a popular game is really different from understanding what it's like to play that game for 10-20 (or more :) hours.

For example, most parents have heard of Club Penguin and might even have seen the site or read a general overview. But not so many have actually gone in and explored the world and played the games -- that is, until their son or daughter begs to get a Club Penguin account. Then parents can find themselves in a panic, scrambling to find out what this Club Penguin thing is really about. (This happened to me, but in my case it was Minecraft. I've even got a background in hardcore games, and I'll admit when I tried to play Minecraft, I was pretty lost and had no idea how to decide whether this was right for my son! The only way I could understand Minecraft was to talk to people who know a LOT about Minecraft.)

Since those expert communities already exist here at Wikia, we figured it would be nice to create a page within each wiki anticipating the specific questions parents would have, and make it as easy as possible for community members like you to fill it in. You have knowledge much deeper than the basic overview, and parents can really benefit from that knowledge. We hope they'll be able to find it easily using the Parent Filter.