On 6/23/06, Zero megamanzero521@yahoo.com wrote:
Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
I suspect, though, that it matters to our *readers* (you know, those people we're supposed to be writing this thing for).
"You suspect"..? Are you telling me this template was created without any request by the target audiance in question...? This is ridiculous. Who are we...? We're editors of an neutral encyclopedia. Its not up to us to make such assumptions without founded edvidence.
Hi, I'm George, and I'm a Wikipedia Editor, and a I'm a Wikipedia reader, too.
The dichotomy of "editors" not being "users" is false. We're a subset of readership. We should not use our judgement to assume what readers want arbitrarily, but using common sense is different. Spoiler warnings are common in other online forums, and have been for a long time, and they're there for a reason. They're there because some people object to spoilers. Sometimes a majority of readers object to spoilers.