 | This page documents an English Wikipedia content guideline. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. |
 | This page in a nutshell: Warnings should not generally appear in articles. All articles are already covered by the Wikipedia disclaimers. |
For the purpose of this guideline, a disclaimer is some text or template within an article that editors may attempt to insert as a warning to readers. Although such content warnings have frequently been proposed, community consensus is that disclaimers do not belong in encyclopedia articles and should be deleted.
Warnings are often redundant with the standard Wikipedia disclaimers. Were they to be permitted, they could create a false sense of security, by creating a misleading impression that all potentially problematic content is flagged, and therefore that articles without disclaimers are inherently "safe". The community consensus to ban such warnings also avoids time-consuming debates over culturally subjective issues such as what constitutes "adult content". By longstanding policy, Wikipedia is not censored.
