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I feel it is quite difficult to come up with concrete reasoning why I think the Paradise Island wiki was misflagged. The best I can do at this moment:

The mobile phone game this wiki is dedicated to is a city-builder / economic simulation game and targets no specific age group. I think doing so would only exclude potentially paying customers to start playing this game. This unspecificness is reflected in the game contents: it is gender-neutral, and there is no blood, violence, or other specifically mature content. Also the game's complexity is just average: anybody can place buildings on a piece of land and collect their profit every once in a while. It is only hard if you want to maximise profits and progress through the game quickly. That is what this wiki tries to help people with.

However, the nature of the game implies an extended dedication to it. Not necessarily per gaming session (mine take only a couple of minutes each), but extended dedication over a prolonged period of time. Personally I am playing this game multiple times a day for close to two and a half years now and I have still not reached the highest level or completed every task. I think it is this dedication that puts off most children from persisting in playing this game, because it is well known from psychological research that children have a great preference for instant rewards (see also the Stanford marshmallow experiment). It is only during adolescence that the inhibitory control that regulates impulsiveness starts developing and people start to be able to wait longer for their rewards (see Big Five personality traits). So while there is no direct reason why kids won't be playing this game, I think the last reason alone makes sure there will be only very few kids interested in this game long enough to participate in the wiki.