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→Warnings to Parents: My comments as requested
:I don't think there should be any warnings added to Columbine. You could come up with some pretty good warnings if you tried - warnings on letting kids own guns come to mind - but I don't think there should be such warnings, because it's not the place of an encyclopedia to issue such warnings. My point though is that if it's pointless and sily to issue such warnings in the case of Columbine, it's equally pointless and silly to issue them here. [[User:Daphnea|Daphnea]] 21:16, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
:I don't think there should be any warnings added to Columbine. You could come up with some pretty good warnings if you tried - warnings on letting kids own guns come to mind - but I don't think there should be such warnings, because it's not the place of an encyclopedia to issue such warnings. My point though is that if it's pointless and sily to issue such warnings in the case of Columbine, it's equally pointless and silly to issue them here. [[User:Daphnea|Daphnea]] 21:16, 23 June 2008 (EDT)
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BenP invited me to review the article and add my comments. First let me say that I found this article quite informative, and now know a lot more about the game than I did before reading it.
Before I get to the main point, I noted a few minor problems.
* The article needs a bit of copyediting, with missing words or poor grammar in a few places.
* The article is rather short of references. I think this is the sort of article in which it's not reasonable to reference everything that might be disputed, and where Conservapedia's lack of a ban on original research is useful, but even allowing for those point, more references would be good.
* The comments about early Christian critics of the game seem to be unduly patronising to those people, and could probably do with some rewording.
* Is the phrase "atheism or monotheism in disguise" correct? (And that's one thing that could do with a reference.)
* I don't understand the scenario about humans being teleported from Earth. That needs to be explained better.
Okay, to the main point.
There are differences between the following sentences:
* ''Guns can easily be misused and the consequences of misuse are sometimes fatal.''
* ''Guns can easily be misused and the consequences of misuse are sometimes fatal, so parents should restrict the use of guns by children.''
I feel that the second one is somewhat patronising, as it presumes that a parent is not clever enough to work out for themselves that if gun misuse is sometimes fatal, they ought to be careful about their children having access to them. And it's not encyclopaedic.
Note that I'm not opposed to saying that D&D can be dangerous (more on that below). Rather, I'm saying that there is no need to give an explicit warning as though that would not already be obvious from other content.
As to whether or not it ''is'' dangerous, I can see the argument from both sides, and to a fair extent it's a very subjective matter. I don't doubt that it has the ''potential'' to be dangerous, but whether it is in practice depends on just how it is played, who it is played with, perhaps how often or how long it is played, and so forth. Not being a frequent player of the game myself (actually, I've not played it at all), I'm not in a position to say whether it is or is not dangerous, and therefore how much need be said about its dangers.
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 00:16, 25 June 2008 (EDT)