On 5/15/07, Bryan Derksen
<bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
On the other hand, one of the uses I put
Wikipedia to on a regular basis
depends on spoilers being present. I hate horror movies and never watch
them. But darnit, they often make the commercials for those movies so
_interesting._ So when I get hit with a horror movie promo that makes me
wonder what the heck the big secret of the movie is, I check out the
Wikipedia article and expect to find a nice straightforward plot summary
that explains all the main points.
Yep. But you wouldn't object to having to click a link that said "Show
spoilers" would you?
Not unless the structure of the article had to be extremely distorted in
order to preserve the spoiler. To stick with the Valen example, I popped
over there and found that there was a fair-use picture of Valen that was
linked to but not actually displayed in the article for fear of spoiling
his identity. But a recent change to how fair use images are dealt with
would result in this image being deleted, so I made the image visible. I
don't believe spoiler preservation takes precedence over being informative.