On 5/22/07, Gabe Johnson gjzilla@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/21/07, Skyring skyring@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."