[WikiEN-l] Workable spoiler solution?

[Alex Newman]

David Gerard wrote:
>
>[[User:Ned Scott]]'s written a proposal, currently up at
>[[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning]] (after much hacking by others) which
>strikes me as sane and workable.
>
>I note that I've been removing inappropriate spoilers as fast as I can
>and almost all have stayed that way. Whereas those reverting me have
>tended to be blocked for 3RR a lot, i.e. are hotheads. This suggests
>to me that the actual wiki opinion is not so very much in favour of
>spoilers everywhere. I wonder if we'll start getting email from
>aggrieved readers, i.e. the people spoilers are supposed to be for.
>
>
>- d.
>

I would be surprised if we did. After all, they read Wikipedia for the 
*knowledge*, not the non knowledge. If they didn't want it spoiling, they 
would read a review site, or see the damn film (or book, song, whatever....) 
before reading about what happens.

Alex (Majorly)

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