[WikiEN-l] {{spoiler}} {{infoboxrequired}} and the root of the problem

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I'm willing to wager that it wasn't our expert writers on Shakesphere, 
Austen, Dickens, or Steinberg, English literature or classical text 
scholars who placed {{spoiler}} on these articles.

It will have been boy-scouts inflating their edit counts and applying 
misplaced conformity by sticking tags on things. This is the problem all 
over Wikipedia right now - ignorant bullies enforcing their new 
stylistic meta-policies across articles whose content they know nothing 
about. Telling those that have worked on them for weeks that they *must* 
have an infoxbox - ugly navigation template - or are now 'owned' by some 
over-extended wikiproject.

Yes, we resist possession per [[WP:OWN]], but I think we need to say 
'no' to other things:
1)demands for conformity which originate from a small number of people 
who have made a 'rule'

2) intrusion - by which I mean people who have no interest in improving 
the rest of the article jumping in to enforce some idea.

And perhaps we need a moratorium on tagging things needlessly.

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