A question that might harm a person by giving out personal information such as phone number, real name, etc. Or a question that gives out information about something that could possibly harm someone or something.
'How are you?' is a question identified as harmful for many reasons. Predators often start out using that question, and then get to know people on WikiAnswers, and then eventually find out where someone lives and robs or kidnaps them. It is very harmful, especially on a Q&A site such as WikiAnswers. It is mainly to protect the younger kids who do not think it is harmful.
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WikiAnswers probbaly said that because there some thing that is not appropiate in the Q: because maybe could have hurt someone. Or not appropiate to talk about.
WikiAnswers is an On-line interactive Community where individual users can both contribute to by changing answers and report contributions that they deem harmful. An example of a harmful question could be where a derogatory remark had been made against another or maybe a Copyright or Intellectual Property had been violated, or on a more serious note that sexual offences are committed because of the content of a question. It is for this reason that WikiAnswers has an army of Supervisors who respond quickly to such reports and can also see where the Community itself has dealt with a "situation". It is for that reason that WikiAnswers is unique and can set itself aside from other online question and answer services.
It means that the question was marked for deletion. If it was marked for deletion accidently, it will be fixed.
Because the question has been added to the list of inappropriate questions, if you asked an inappropriate question.
Contributors cannot, but supervisors can. If you find a question that is inappropriate, unable to be answered, offensive, harmful, or illegal, then flag it or contact a supervisor.
I don't know exactly what question you're referring to, but if the question had only the word "Why?" and no other words, it would have been deleted because it is not an answerable question, since it is not a complete sentence. Why WHAT? No one would know what the question was asking about. This site exists for real questions, not just silliness. It might be silly but it's not harmful.
Probably oversensitive.
Yes, you can submit a question without an account on WikiAnswers.
Yes, WikiAnswers is a Question and Answer community.
The question you asked is inappropriate for WikiAnswers.