On 5/19/07, Alex Newman alex9891@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
[[User:Ned Scott]]'s written a proposal, currently up at [[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning]] (after much hacking by others) which strikes me as sane and workable.
I note that I've been removing inappropriate spoilers as fast as I can and almost all have stayed that way. Whereas those reverting me have tended to be blocked for 3RR a lot, i.e. are hotheads. This suggests to me that the actual wiki opinion is not so very much in favour of spoilers everywhere. I wonder if we'll start getting email from aggrieved readers, i.e. the people spoilers are supposed to be for.
- d.
I would be surprised if we did. After all, they read Wikipedia for the *knowledge*, not the non knowledge. If they didn't want it spoiling, they would read a review site, or see the damn film (or book, song, whatever....) before reading about what happens.
Alex (Majorly)
They could also want to figure out who the cast is of a film they just heard of on Wikipedia and not even know about IMDB. Besides, I often come across film or book articles without finding out what they are until it's too late.
Mgm