On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
>> One could require that spoiler warnings be
verifiable, i.e. they must be
>> accompanied by a reference to a reliable source that establishes that
>> the information one is about to read will spoil one's pleasures as much
>> as the Monty Python secret joke would endanger one's life.
I suggest
that before we add a tag saying "this article's section requires
expansion", we find a reliable source which states that our article requires
expansion. (Not.)
Expansion markers are for improvement in the article; they
serve as notes for
our editors and won't occur in the ideal article. That's distinct from spoiler
warnings which are intended to go in the final product.
Either version deliberately twists verifiability by interpreting it too
literally. Sure, it isn't meant to apply to "notes"-type tags, but then it
isn't meant to apply to tags at all.