On 6/23/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/23/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect, though, that it matters to our *readers* (you know, those people we're supposed to be writing this thing for). It costs us nothing to add a template to an article about a movie noting that the surprise ending is revealed; and while most readers may not care, there are some that, desiring to avoid reading such materials, will thank us for our foresight in providing such a warning.
And it would be so nice if we would say "THE ENDING IS REVEALED IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH"
The boat sinks.
"YOU CAN START READING AGAIN"
As opposed to stamping "Somewhere in this article, the plot of this film may be discussed" indiscriminately on all film or TV articles. Which is worth zero to anyone.
Indeed. Some people tend to cover too much of the article with such tags; in most cases, there should only be a paragraph or two that really needs them.
(There are, of course, extreme cases, such as [[Darth Vader]], but these tend to be quite rare and can be handled as exceptions to the general rule.)