On 5/19/07, Philip Sandifer sandifer@english.ufl.edu wrote:
That Larry Sanger liked spoiler warnings back in the day.
Oh yeah, something else, which I actually think is still a useful point today. Sanger suggests the following text for the spoiler template: "The following, like all Wikipedia plot summaries, may give away plot surprises."
I actually think that's a lot better tag than the current one of "Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow."
If the tag is going to be kept, and is going to be applied very broadly, that's a much more sane text. If there's one thing I hate more than anything else about the tag, it's that it usually says something so incredibly obvious - that a ==Plot== section is going to contain plot details.
Anthony