On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Philip Sandifer wrote:
There were multiple arguments - NOR, no disclaimers, and the damage they did to organization of articles. But the heart of the issue - the thing that was underlying the whole discussion is that people were seeing spoiler warnings on Romeo and Juliet, and their brains were exploding.
Of course, if that really bugged people, the correct solution was to take the spoiler warnings off of Romeo and Juliet. Not to take advantage of the fact that given the ability to search for templates, it's much easier to delete thousands of spoiler warnings than add them.