Steve Bennett wrote:
On 5/15/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
On the other hand, one of the uses I put Wikipedia to on a regular basis depends on spoilers being present. I hate horror movies and never watch them. But darnit, they often make the commercials for those movies so _interesting._ So when I get hit with a horror movie promo that makes me wonder what the heck the big secret of the movie is, I check out the Wikipedia article and expect to find a nice straightforward plot summary that explains all the main points.
Yep. But you wouldn't object to having to click a link that said "Show spoilers" would you?
Not unless the structure of the article had to be extremely distorted in order to preserve the spoiler. To stick with the Valen example, I popped over there and found that there was a fair-use picture of Valen that was linked to but not actually displayed in the article for fear of spoiling his identity. But a recent change to how fair use images are dealt with would result in this image being deleted, so I made the image visible. I don't believe spoiler preservation takes precedence over being informative.