Anthony wrote:
On 5/23/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 5/20/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Surely one would expect ==Plot summary== to
contain plot elements in
an encyclopedic manner.
Plot elements != spoiler. This discussion is meaningless if those two
concepts are considered equivalent.
As long as {{spoiler}} continues to read "Spoiler warning: Plot or ending
details follow.", people are going to continue to use the tag any time plot
or ending details follow. In fact, my anecdotal evidence is that most of
the {{spoiler}} tags I come across are applied wholesale to an entire plot
section.
That's what happens with templastes. It's like putting AK-47s in the
hands of kids who don't know how to use them.
Maybe an interim solution is to have different spoiler
templates for
different situations. We could first take the time to disambig the use of
template:spoiler into the different types of situations, and *then* have a
policy discussion over each one. I'd be willing to help disambiguate the
tags.
I think that that suggestion would only make matters worse. At least
now if you want to monitor this kind of activity there is only a small
number of templates to trace. The net effect of your suggestion is a
bit like building separate madhouses to segregate the different kinds of
madness.
Ec