On 5/21/07, Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What person, I ask, what thinking person is going
to go to an article on
Harry Potter and the Order of the Boot and be surprised to find plot
details
freely given away? Surely they would expect the
plot to be described and
would be righteously indignant if we didn't describe it. Are we writing
an
encyclopaedia for cretins?
--
Peter in Canberra
That's not the point. We still have the spoiler information. We just
provide a convienient template (which you can hide) so that the reader
can be warned. It is a minor service provide. If it seriously
sacrifices the integrity of the article (as is apparently the case in
[[The Crying Game]],) we can choose to omit it, or provide a warning
for the entire article. I would not be against editing of the
guidelines to reflect this, but don't simply discard them entirely.
It's entirely the point. If you go to an article on a novel, only a complete
nong would be surprised to find plot details.
Posting a spoiler notice is like putting a warning label on a packet of
peanuts. "Warning, may contain nuts."
--
Peter in Canberra