On 5/16/07, Brock Weller <brock.weller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would. Thats an extra step between me and
information. We are an
encyclopedia. We should not be double wrapped. I punch in the name of the
article I want, I read it. Thats all there is to it.
I agree wholly.
It also seems to me like people are rather odd about what stuff they
consider "spoiler" and what not. This is especially notable with
major comic-book figures, who've often been recreated, re-imagined and
retconned so many times that there are dozens of "plots" and
"endings". In these, it seems that only recent versions get spoiler
warnings; additionally, TV versions seem much more likely to get
spoiler warnings. I just read through a bunch of our articles on
major Superman characters; in these, only recent "Smallville" plot and
recent movies seem to get spoiler warnings.
This is really annoying to me (why should TV be so sacred, while we
can handle other media more intelligently?) and especially since the
choppy nature of these articles means we're constantly diving into
spoiler-tagged paragraphs.
-Matt