Blog:Why Mature templates of any kind are an objectively bad idea

There's this issue I have with these wikis as of late, and it's the Mature templates, be it NSFW, NSFL, etc. You wanna know why? Well, like I've said it in the past: while pages do describe some disturbing themes, they don't necessarily show said themes as there are no violent or sexual images anywhere on these wikis, and showing is more evident than telling.

The other problem is the fact that they get added to pages that don't even need these templates, and the worst offenders are the articles on Terrible TV Shows Wiki, including the One Coarse Meal episode, despite being an episode by an otherwise kid-friendly show, which can also result in massive edit wars endlessly, and because of that, I had no choice but to outright delete the NSFW template from that wiki, but it later got restored due to an RfC, which somehow succeeded, and this might go back to edit wars and needless additions 24/7.

There's this other type of a Mature template that needs to be mentioned is the M for Mature template on both of the Games Wiki. This template gets unnecessarily added to pages of games that are rated M for Mature such as Vanquish or Nier Automata, but are not exactly extremely violent or extremely sexual, and don't need the template whatsoever. The other reason why this template is pointless is because the age rating section exists on the Games Wikis' infoboxes, which should've rendered it obsolete by now, but didn't.

Also, some of you might be saying that these templates are made to "protect children". Well, we're not their legal guardians, and it's not our job to monitor what a child looks at on these wikis. If anything, it's their parents job to do that.

The last thing to bring up is that having the Mature templates of any kind makes us look like hypocrites, because we've called out websites like YouTube or DeviantArt on Rotten Websites Wiki for having some type of restriction that prevents guests from viewing content without an account.

Feel free to voice your opinions in the comment section.