[WikiEN-l] From the Dawn of Spoilers

[Anthony]

On 5/19/07, Philip Sandifer <sandifer at english.ufl.edu> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Crying_Game&oldid=288389
>
> Created by The Cunctator during the first debate on spoilers, back in
> 2001, when people kept citing [[The Crying Game]] as an article that
> should have a spoiler warning despite the article not existing at the
> time.
>
Nice stuff.  And obviously long before WP:POINT :).  Even Jimbo
comments that he laughed out loud when he saw the Cunctator's
"disruption" (my term).

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Santa_Claus_in_Northern_American_culture&diff=409872&oldid=399854
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Santa_Claus_in_Northern_American_culture&diff=462440&oldid=462435

2 November 2002, Modemac inserting and then 5 December 2002, Eloquence
"removing silly spoiler warning".  Shouldn't that be reverted with the
insightful "calling it silly is not grounds for removal"?

Anthony