Ken Arromdee wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
In fact, saying that Bruce Wayne is Batman is a spoiler... of the original Batman story in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", in which that fact is not revealed until the final panel.
We need a policy WP:COMMONSENSE.
It's extremely unlikely that anyone would begin reading Batman stories while
- not knowing Bruce Wayne is Batman and 2) starting their reading with
Detective #27. On the other hand, it's far more likely that someone would begin watching Babylon 5 not already knowing who Valen is, and that they'd watch it in a way that the revelation is a surprise. It's *possible* that either the Batman or Valen article could spoil someone, but one possibility is vanishingly unlikely and the other isn't.
This is another case which proves that robotically applying a rule is bad. But that doesn't mean the rule itself is bad. It just means that it needs human judgment to use.
Maybe the seven dwarves were responsible for putting the tag at [[Snow White (1933 cartoon) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_%281933_cartoon%29]].
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