On 16/12/2007, Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/12/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
In addition, {{spoiler}} is dead as a dead thing. We have {{currentfiction}}, which does a slightly better job of the same thing.
Apparently it isn't, given the discussion so far in this thread. Its militant opponents may insist that there is no support for spoilers but results tend to speak for themselves.
Such as [[Template:Spoiler]] being deleted and [[Template:Current fiction]] looking like it's headed that way (I opined "neutral to mostly harmless" on that one - it was IMO relevant during the Harry Potter 7 release cycle, when you could reasonably expect there would be lots of fans very interested in the book who hadn't yet read it).
In addition, despite the repeated complaints about the deletion of the spoilers, shopping the issue to every possible venue in Wikipedia has consistently resulted in responses ranging from apathy to "go away." I suggest it's possible that the lack of action to save the spoilers is not so much the result of an oppressive conspiracy as that the actual community opinion is on the slightly negative side of "nobody cares." (And no, the same people bringing it up over and over on wikien-l doesn't IMO constitute the community or substantial portions of it caring.)
- d.