Spoiler: I agree.
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There are other cases like this - [[The Crying Game]] is a travesty of an article because the single most interesting aspect of the movie isn't actually revealed until the sixth paragraph. And
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Bold proposal: Nuke the spoiler template. Nuke all "spoiler" policies. People may well get burnt on one or two articles they read before they will come to a simple and obvious realization
encyclopedia articles on a topic reveal information about that topic. If you have a desire to not know things about a topic, you probably shouldn't go look it up in an encyclopedia.
This should be obvious. Our mission is to provide information, not hide it.
Exactly. I get the feeling that spoiler rules well-intended on things like IMDB get assumed and applied on WP. The only way to avoid that is to simply rip out any suggestion that WP cares about "spoiler"s.
More importantly, there seems to be a more general problem with articles going into all sorts of detail before ever summarizing the most significant points of the article. Anything that contributes further to this really should be removed or relegated to one of those non-templated, non-policy, non-guideline writings.
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