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

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Wed May 23 09:49:24 UTC 2007


Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 5/20/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Do spoiler warnings in Wikipedia actually serve the public at all?
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>Very poor form of me to reply twice to the same message, but I'd like
>to relate an experience I had this morning. I was led to this article:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hardest_logic_puzzle_ever
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>I am extremely grateful for the spoiler warning. I was able to read
>the intro, which describes the problem. Then I saw the spoiler
>warning, and thought for a couple of seconds, and decided I didn't
>want the answer yet. Whereupon I was late for work due to spending an
>hour discussing the problem with my girlfriend.
>
In this case there is a section heading for the solution.  Why wouldn't 
this make the template redundant?

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