On 5/16/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony DiPierro
It's also common sense that an encyclopedia article on [[Fahrenheit 451]] is going to contain, you know, details on the plot of Fahrenheit 451.
So can we please please get rid of [[template:spoiler]] while we're at it?
Hell, I'm going to start a new thread on this, cause I'm serious. I hate that template.
Does it really hurt?
It's annoying, about on the level of those ads some websites place in the middle of their news articles. I wish there was at least a way to turn them off, but then again I usually don't log in so that wouldn't help me all that much.
Believe it or not, there are some folk around who don't know if Hamlet becomes King of Denmark or if Romeo gets the girl, and maybe they want to know a bit about the historical and publishing background before they read a novel or see a play. Maybe they get to the article through Google and they are really looking for information on Ray Bradbury or Julie Christie ***sigh*** ond don't care to have plot details revealed.
Our readers don't always come to our articles by typing in the title.
Well, using [[Hamlet]] as an example, if they read through the article and stop when it gets to the sections that have the titles "Main characters" or "Plot Summary", then they'd accomplish that perfectly well *without* a warning. I mean, the section is called "Plot Summary". Isn't that warning enough?
Seriously, look at that article. It reads (in pseudo-wikitext):
==Plot summary== Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Go figure, plot details follow a headline which says "Plot summary".
Anthony