Matthew Brown wrote:
I'd personally say that any plot summary that would
be detailed enough
to cause fair use issues for a commercial print encyclopedia is too
detailed for Wikipedia. It's supposed to be a very brief summary, not
a retelling of the story in thirty paragraphs. In checking out
spoiler warnings, I've found some obsessively over-large "summaries"
out there ...
Yes, if I read the plot in a Wikipedia article it's to save me the
trouble of wasting time to watch the movie just to find out about it.
If it's going to be really long, I might as well watch the movie.
Ec