On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tony Sidaway wrote:
I think this was a case that cried out for mass removal. The opposition to the indiscriminate sprinkling of spoiler tags, often on grossly inappropriate locations such as on the biography of Roger Bacon and the article "Ultimate fate of the universe", which is primarily concerned with eschatology, was considerable, and most of the spoiler tags place on legitimate articles of fictional subjects immediately followed a self-explanatory section heading like "Plot", "Plot summary", or "Synopsis".
I've argued against this like, I don't know, 20 times?
Plot sections -- do not always contain spoilers -- when they do contain spoilers, may contain spoilers only in some places, so it makes sense to put a spoiler warning partway through the section (making the warning non-redundant since it provdes information about the location of the spoiler in the section) -- should contain spoiler warnings anyway merely for user interface consistency. I can just imagine you at Microsoft saying "everyone knows that you can close a program by clicking on the X in the corner, so take out that File/ Quit option."