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

[Ken Arromdee]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, David Gerard wrote:
> > > Here's a question: do we have a source for the fact that a given fact
> > > is the spoiler? Or is it just an editor deciding?
> > That question is like asking "do we have a source for the fact that something
> > is notable enough to have an article?"  Meta decisions don't require sources.
> No, not at all - by analogy to living biographies, where we do need
> sources for facts being important, rather than merely documented.

Not in the same sense.  We need sources as evidence for importance, but we
don't require that a source actually say "this fact is important".  Importance
is something we deduce from sources, not something which must be explicitly
stated in them.