[WikiEN-l] So what was the outcome of the spoilerwar?

[Ken Arromdee]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Steve Bennett wrote:
> > Net outcome: If your article needs {{spoiler}}, it's defective enough
> > it may as well be tagged {{cleanup}}.
> 
> Is that a change to the guideline, or just your reading of the
> apparent consensus on the talk page? I'd obviously rather remove my
> own toenails than read the entire discussion, but I don't want to be
> totally ignorant.
> 
> It's a real pity that I feel so strongly at odds with consensus. That
> hasn't happened for me with Wikipedia before. I do feel that there is
> a place for spoiler warning tags on most articles about fictional
> subjects, and I don't accept that "a plot summary inherently contains
> spoilers so don't read it if you don't want the spoilers".

I don't see any actual consensus here.  The biggest claim of consensus is "if
you don't revert my thousands of changes, that shows there's consensus for
them".  The new guideline was pretty much forced through, with objections
allowed on its exact details but none on "we don't need this".