On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
One could require that spoiler warnings be verifiable, i.e. they must be accompanied by a reference to a reliable source that establishes that the information one is about to read will spoil one's pleasures as much as the Monty Python secret joke would endanger one's life.
I suggest that before we add a tag saying "this article's section requires expansion", we find a reliable source which states that our article requires expansion. (Not.)
Expansion markers are for improvement in the article; they serve as notes for our editors and won't occur in the ideal article. That's distinct from spoiler warnings which are intended to go in the final product.
Either version deliberately twists verifiability by interpreting it too literally. Sure, it isn't meant to apply to "notes"-type tags, but then it isn't meant to apply to tags at all.