On Thu, 31 May 2007 15:51:17 +1000, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone give me a 1-sentence description of the net outcome of the recent spoiler war?
There never was and probably never will be a policy, only a guideline.
As it stands, there seems to be broad support for the idea that spoiler tags are redundant in plot / synopsis sections, absurd in articles on older and especially classic works, a substitute for {{original research}} in articles on future or forthcoming films, and possibly defensible in a small number of cases for new releases where knowing the plot twist is identified by external sources as a spoiler for the subject.
That's my reading, anyway.
Guy (JzG)