[[User:Ned Scott]]'s written a proposal, currently up at [[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning]] (after much hacking by others) which strikes me as sane and workable.
I note that I've been removing inappropriate spoilers as fast as I can and almost all have stayed that way. Whereas those reverting me have tended to be blocked for 3RR a lot, i.e. are hotheads. This suggests to me that the actual wiki opinion is not so very much in favour of spoilers everywhere. I wonder if we'll start getting email from aggrieved readers, i.e. the people spoilers are supposed to be for.
- d.
Right, and I think users of WP are aware that if the continue reading an article on a film or book, they will find the plot, and that the last part of the description of the plot will tell the ending. A section heading ==Plot summary== is as effective as a spoiler warning.
On 5/19/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
[[User:Ned Scott]]'s written a proposal, currently up at [[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning]] (after much hacking by others) which strikes me as sane and workable.
I note that I've been removing inappropriate spoilers as fast as I can and almost all have stayed that way. Whereas those reverting me have tended to be blocked for 3RR a lot, i.e. are hotheads. This suggests to me that the actual wiki opinion is not so very much in favour of spoilers everywhere. I wonder if we'll start getting email from aggrieved readers, i.e. the people spoilers are supposed to be for.
- d.
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On 5/19/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
Right, and I think users of WP are aware that if the continue reading an article on a film or book, they will find the plot, and that the last part of the description of the plot will tell the ending. A section heading ==Plot summary== is as effective as a spoiler warning.
Which is why the proposal specifically mentions that. I don't agree with the statement it makes about Harry Potter book 6, but apart from that, I think it's pretty workable.
Mgm