Forum:Profanity and Quoting Material

I know Wikia has rules against the posting of material that is considered profane. My question is - I edit a wiki for The Casual Vacancy, the new novel by J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. If anyone that's reading this has read it, you probably know that for many of the characters, swearing comes about as easily as breathing and there are also many references to things that some would consider obscene. So how should this be handled? A particular quote may be representative of a character and also a particularly good subject for a page-top quote, but may very well contain obscenities. ProfessorTofty (talk) 05:14, November 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * If Wikia has blanket rules against posting profanity, that's news to me. Have you read Uncyclopedia lately? Typing your favorite 4 letter word into the search bar there may be an enlightening experience. Now, do I think unnecessary profanity should be spread around? No, I don't think that's a good thing. Should visual depictions of extreme violence or pornographic images be uploaded? No, that is in fact against the Terms of Use.


 * But if we're talking about quoting text from a book or some other media outlet, I 100% believe in reproducing that quote verbatim -- all spelling errors and profanity included and uncensored, so as to represent the content as accurately as possible. Secondly, if the readership of your wiki is presumably people who read the novel or would be interested in it, the presence of this kind of material shouldn't be too big of a shocker. That's just a personal opinion though. This is something that should ultimately be up to your wiki community to decide what you feel is most appropriate for you.
 * Well, I had checked, and this is what Wikia's Terms of Use has to say about the matter:


 * "User Conduct


 * You agree not to use the Service to: ... Post or transmit any content that is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct." However, you make a good point about Uncyclopedia. ProfessorTofty (talk) 08:17, November 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * But, Uncyclopedia has a warning when you first enter the wiki saying that the wiki has swears in it. You could do that with one page. Make a script having a popup saying that there are swears on this page.Joletole (talk) 23:06, November 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * The content warning on Uncyclopedia is provided by Wikia, you can find the code (it's an MW Extension) in their GitHub. I don't think it matters that much though; anyone who has been to Uncyc knows why it has that warning, a literary analysis isn't going to be trying to offend the reader like Uncyc does. Lunarity 01:53, November 13, 2012 (UTC)