On 5/23/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/20/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Surely one would expect ==Plot summary== to contain plot elements in an encyclopedic manner.
Plot elements != spoiler. This discussion is meaningless if those two concepts are considered equivalent.
As long as {{spoiler}} continues to read "Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.", people are going to continue to use the tag any time plot or ending details follow. In fact, my anecdotal evidence is that most of the {{spoiler}} tags I come across are applied wholesale to an entire plot section.
Maybe an interim solution is to have different spoiler templates for different situations. We could first take the time to disambig the use of template:spoiler into the different types of situations, and *then* have a policy discussion over each one. I'd be willing to help disambiguate the tags.
Anthony