[WikiEN-l] Deleting over 45000 items

[Ken Arromdee]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tony Sidaway wrote:
> I think this was a case that cried out for mass removal.  The
> opposition to the indiscriminate sprinkling of spoiler tags, often on
> grossly inappropriate locations such as on the biography of Roger
> Bacon and the article "Ultimate fate of the universe", which is
> primarily concerned with eschatology, was considerable, and most of
> the spoiler tags place on legitimate articles of fictional subjects
> immediately followed a self-explanatory section heading like "Plot",
> "Plot summary", or "Synopsis".

I've argued against this like, I don't know, 20 times?

Plot sections
-- do not always contain spoilers
-- when they do contain spoilers, may contain spoilers only in some places, so
it makes sense to put a spoiler warning partway through the section (making
the warning non-redundant since it provdes information about the location of
the spoiler in the section)
-- should contain spoiler warnings anyway merely for user interface consistency.
I can just imagine you at Microsoft saying "everyone knows that you can
close a program by clicking on the X in the corner, so take out that File/
Quit option."