On Sun, 20 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:
The current stage of the Great Spoiler Shift is a rough guideline on [[Wikipedia:Spoiler]] and discussion on the talk page. Phil Sandifer has asked one very apposite question: Where is the evidence our readers even care? None has been presented
(As one of those whose phone number seems to have become Wikipedia's phone number, I get people calling and complaining about their *login not working* (wtf) as well as every *other* content issue under the sun. I have *never* had a complaint that we spoilt a work of fiction for someone. I await a single piece of evidence, not conjecture.)
Well, one person already complained about it on that discussion page. But of course, this sort of complaint isn't one for which people would contact Wikipedia. Honestly, if you read a spoiler and didn't like it, do you seriously think as a new user your first order of business would be to contact Wikipedia and complain?