On Mon, 21 May 2007, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
"It's entirely unclear how a fear of knowledge suits editing an encyclopedia. The whole thing is a spoiler"
Nicely said. But it is the way of the web, or so it seems.
It is poorly said, because it leaves no room for nuance.
"The whole thing is a spoiler" only in some abstract sense that bears no resemblance to what most actual people consider spoilers. Not every fact in an article about a work is a spoiler. *You* might not think that "The butler did it" is a spoiler but "this mystery has a murder in it" is not; but if so, you are very different from most other readers.