On 20/06/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/06/07, Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.com>
wrote:
> It takes far less than one minute to determine
that "Three Little Pigs,"
> "Thousand Nights and a Night," and "Hamlet" do not need spoiler
> warnings. Using a more reasonable estimate of six seconds to scan an
> article to determine if the spoiler tag is there to protect some
> revelation on the order of someone dying in one of Shakespeare's
> tragedies, we find that 45000 articles can be corrected by 100 editors
> in (gasp) 45 minutes.
To be fair, I did zap 10-20,000 {{spoiler}} tags
personally.
I note also that although I tried not to hit any article twice, I did
inadvertently in some cases, and those who wanted the spoilers on were
not reluctant to tell me so on my talk page. These were erroneous and
I did and do apologise for such cases.
- d.