On 5/20/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Do spoiler warnings in Wikipedia actually serve
the public at all?
Very poor form of me to reply twice to the same message, but I'd like
to relate an experience I had this morning. I was led to this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hardest_logic_puzzle_ever
I am extremely grateful for the spoiler warning. I was able to read
the intro, which describes the problem. Then I saw the spoiler
warning, and thought for a couple of seconds, and decided I didn't
want the answer yet. Whereupon I was late for work due to spending an
hour discussing the problem with my girlfriend.
In this case there is a section heading for the solution. Why wouldn't
this make the template redundant?
Ec