On Wed, 16 May 2007, Ray Saintonge wrote:
This is another
case which proves that robotically applying a rule is bad.
But that doesn't mean the rule itself is bad. It just means that it needs
human judgment to use.
Maybe the seven dwarves were responsible for putting the tag at [[Snow
White (1933 cartoon)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_%281933_cartoon%29>]].
It seems disingenuous to say "I want to remove spoiler warnings from Snow White
and the Three Little Pigs" when those aren't typical. Sure, you want to
remove spoiler warnings from them, but you also want to spoil [[Valen]],
and that's what people are *really* worried about.
Otherwise, you could easily write a policy that just got rid of spoiler
warnings on Three Little Pigs. "Don't use spoiler warnings if the vast
majority of people who want to look at the article already know the spoiler
or won't care about being spoiled".