2008/10/7 Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net:
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Is this the same David Gerard that not only spearheaded the drive but even personally removed spoiler warnings...
There is a big difference between a quality warning and a spoiler warning.
Yeah, spoiler warnings are easy to delete by not-technically-but-pretty-much- automated methods.
Wasn't one of the rationales for taking out spoiler warnings that it was original research to decide that something is a spoiler? Wouldn't it be original research to determine something's quality too?
That's not a rationale I heard. Most people seemed to be arguing in terms of it being unencyclopaedic. I think the key difference is that a spoiler warning is permanent, a quality warning is temporary and just shows that an article is a work-in-progress.