On 5/22/07, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
G'day Matt,
As Skyring also mentions, is there any logical reason why fiction articles should have spoiler warnings but e.g. sports articles should not? If I haven't seen the game yet, it's my responsibility not to go reading things that might tell me the score; if I haven't read the book, likewise.
I quite like this question, too (oh, and welcome back, Pete).
Not that I ever left...
Wikipedia is a strange place indeed if the issue of spoiler warnings generates such great volumes of heat.
It's a bit like the abortion debate, really. You get people at both ends and few in the middle.
Lest I be labelled a fundamentalist, may I suggest that spoiler warnings are appropriate for novels, or movies, or similar works that are less than a year old? Anything older than that is on the shelves of the second-hand bookshops, or in the dollar a week rack at the video rental.