On 16/12/2007, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
The ones who like them are, from the comments, trying to use WP as a movie guide. It isn't--its an encyclopedia. When one reads an encyclopedic entry on a work of fiction, one expects to find the plot--the whole plot. There are multiple other sources for movie reviews. If we want this section of our coverage to look respectably encyclopedic, the spoilers should stay out.
It's not a matter of pleasing people or not, but of maintaining a proper tone and proper standards.
Unfortunately removing spoiler warnings seems to result in the people not putting in spoilers. You may not have liked them but they were an effective way of saying "people this article should include spoilers". The resulting articles are far more clearly unecyclopedic than any spoiler warning.