On 5/15/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/15/07, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
Much easier to delete {{spoiler}} and write an encyclopedia. What next?
If, of course, it's easier to piss off your readers and alienate your editors. I mean, it's always "easier" if everyone just does what you want, isn't it?
Steve
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Why would anyone go to an encyclopedia, which covers literary works in-depth and as a whole, and not expect to have it "spoiled"? If I went to an encyclopedia and found that only part of a work had been covered in the interest of avoiding "spoilers", I'd be pissed off! If I'm looking up encyclopedia coverage of a work, I expect to see a discussion of every important aspect of that work, and generally the climax and ending are critically important to a work. If I want to see a work of fiction "unspoiled", here's a thought-I read/watch it before I go digging for information on it!
But if you have no idea where the spoiler is located in the article, you can't look up anything about the work until after you finished because you could have it spoiled otherwise.
Mgm