User blog comment:PassionatePubli/The elephant in the room./@comment-24.184.203.128-20200711173840/@comment-32094364-20200711200920

Okay here's a problem: Listing the minors, as in all of them, from all ages 1-17, is too vague. We don't have a good grasp on who's a minor and who isn't. In reality, for all we know, for example, the entire citrus squad could be minors. Now, we know Grapefruit is for sure. The rest of them are less childish but could very well be minors still. Or maybe they aren't.

So at that point we just start having to make assumptions. Does this cookie look old enough? Or does this one? Does this line imply they might be on the younger side? Or does it not? It's a huge mess. And people will take the information provided on the wiki as gospel. Surely this must be understood. People will not see the category and think this is "presumptuous" underage, because wikis are supposed to be factual. That means that they will assume that it's accurate. And what if it's not? And that's another problem. There's no facts. It's just random guessing. Sure, some of them are obvious, like Peppermint, Onion, Walnut. But how old do you think Peach and Plum are? How about Princess? Beet? Tiger Lily? We don't know. Are they adults? Are they teenagers? Etc.

Further, it's not going to stop the people who already have malicious intent anyway. They don't care, and they never will. Doesn't matter what the funny cookie dictionary says. Also, a wiki's decisions shouldn't be made based on shipping culture. I'm mostly bringing this topic up at all just because I know it's unfortunately a very frequent issue in this fandom. (and boy do I wish it weren't)

It's too much guesswork for a game about running cookies. A game that will almost never specify anything except for the incredibly tiny and already obvious cookies. If they ever give actual ages, like, say, if cookies get personal bios in some game? Honestly, I would love that, it would fix so many problems and could easily be added on their pages. Until then it's just too much guesswork and too little fact. I understand it's probably frustrating to not have the information at the ready, but the category just doesn't function in the current state of how the series works. It's not honest to just assume random information, nor does it make sense in the spirit of wikia.