[WikiEN-l] Have we ever had a reader complaint of a lack of spoiler tags?

[Skyring]

On 5/22/07, Gabe Johnson <gjzilla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/07, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What person, I ask, what thinking person is going to go to an article on
> > Harry Potter and the Order of the Boot and be surprised to find plot
> details
> > freely given away? Surely they would expect the plot to be described and
> > would be righteously indignant if we didn't describe it. Are we writing
> an
> > encyclopaedia for cretins?
> >
> > --
> > Peter in Canberra
>
> That's not the point. We still have the spoiler information. We just
> provide a convienient template (which you can hide) so that the reader
> can be warned. It is a minor service provide. If it seriously
> sacrifices the integrity of the article (as is apparently the case in
> [[The Crying Game]],) we can choose to omit it, or provide a warning
> for the entire article. I would not be against editing of the
> guidelines to reflect this, but don't simply discard them entirely.
>

It's entirely the point. If you go to an article on a novel, only a complete
nong would be surprised to find plot details.

Posting a spoiler notice is like putting a warning label on a packet of
peanuts. "Warning, may contain nuts."

-- 
Peter in Canberra