Zero megamanzero521@yahoo.com wrote: On 6/24/06, Garion wrote:
FWIW, I also really would like the spoiler templates to be killed. Especially when I saw the [[Romeo and Juliet]] article. But consensus definitely seems be to that they should stay. It is possible to do without though. Like mentioned earlier, the german wikipedia doesn't has them and Ibelieve the opera's project doesn't use them.
But sometimes you also just have to accept that you can't convince people (can't imagine why anyone would not agree with me though :). Hey, if it were up to me I also would kill 90 % of the use of the current templates. And some of the infoboxes. I guess I just don't like many templates. I don't know if this page was mentioned before but see also [[User:Shanes/Why tags are evil]]. But like I said, sometimes you just have to accept the fact that they are going to stay. But please do try to change consensus. :)
Garion
I'm trying. Although I'm okay if they stay, I really think it destroys the point of an encyclopedia which is what we're supposed to be doing. I'm currently discussing this on the [[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning]] talkpage and on [[User talk:Megaman Zero]].
The main reasoning provided is its "courteous". According to policy established and the spririt of the wiki this isn't paticularly senseful. See [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not censored]].
Wikipedians are generally a good lot. I don't expect to change heads anytime soon but I think it is obvious the usefulness of this template is clearly not in view of building the encyclopedia. I'm hopeful, that, in the future this can come out to sensible agreement. Currently, I will continue discussion on the matter. - Zero
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