Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25020361-20140603232736/@comment-10950063-20140603234950

There is no way to make a gateway page. That's not how wikias work.

As for a disclaimer, I sincerely doubt that will happen. Do books contain BOLD, CLEAR disclaimers at the end? Or movies? Or TV shows? Do video games tell you not to do the same things in real life? Does the bible contain a part that tells people that if they hear the voice of god telling them to kill, then they shouldn't do it?

At most, movies and TV shows have a very small print disclaimer saying that any similarity to anything is coincidental.

This is a site for stories. It's a given that they are fictional. Whenever someone asks if a story is true, we tell them it's not. We discourage people from pretending stories are tell or claiming they saw the monsters in these stories. To alter the stories themselves, to undermine the endings with a disclaimer, defeats the purpose of the site. Which is to scare people.

This stabbing is tragic, but it is a case of mental illness. At 12, children should know that monsters don't exist, just as they know Santa doesn't exist. These stories aren't dangerous, no more than any creative work is. But just like any creative work they can have a negative effect on those whose brain chemistry is not on the level.

One of the girls was trying to PROVE that Slenderman was real. This tells us that she had been told it wasn't. Yet, this still happened. Being told it wasn't real had no effect. So, what would the disclaimers really do?

This is a site for readers and writers. The readers like to be scared, the writers like to have the freedom to try to do that. A disclaimer would undermine both. If we believed that a disclaimer would make a difference, we would implement it. In this situation it truly seems like it wouldn't have made any difference.

This is one incident. One incident too many, yes, of course, but it's still the story of two troubled girls, not a story about how creepypasta is driving the children of America crazy. A disclaimer won't change what happened and it won't cure people who need genuine help.