[WikiEN-l] {{spoiler}} vs. writing a goddamn encyclopedia

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri May 18 01:01:03 UTC 2007


David Gerard wrote:

>While waiting to kill it with a stick, I am pleased to note that the
>current version of {{spoiler}} notes that sections headed "Plot
>summary" or similar are likely to contain ... plot elements.
>
>Could those of you who despise this thing please take the time to go to
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Spoiler
>
>and remove it from ten or so articles where this is clearly the case?
>At least then if, God forbid, the accursed thing isn't killed after
>all, its harm will have been mitigated.
>
Good plan.

Also with the plural Template:Spoilers  and with Template:Endspoiler.  
With the latter I've found that when people remove the spoiler warning 
they can forget the corresponding {{endspoiler}}

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