[WikiEN-l] Reflections on the end of the spoiler wars

[David Goodman]

That is saying we should report whatever a reviewer says, rather than
whatever of it is encyclopedic. If 5 reviewers put spoilers in 5
different places, do we include all of them?

On 11/19/07, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems to me removal of the spoilers was non consensus and is a
> position only being maintained by technical difficulties of reverting
> and threats. This is so not good.
>
> My position is that spoilers *should* be included if identification of
> information as a spoiler is verifiable to a notable and reliable
> source.
>
> The removal was performed in such a way as to indicate that spoilers
> should not ever be included; and that position is at odds with the
> fundamental core principles of the wikipedia.
>
>
> On 19/11/2007, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> > > Of course, were anyone to try this, they'd get punished for edit warring,
> > > and even if *that* problem was overcome, it would simply become a contest
> > of
> > > endurance.
> >
> > I'll add that doing this would have to be preceded by reverting the spoiler
> > warning template and any relevant policies.  Trying to do that would result
> > in an edit war in which the spoiler opponents would be considered innocent
> > and
> > the spoiler proponents would be considered guilty, on the grounds that
> > status
> > quo protects the current version and that a consensus is necessary to change
> > it.
> >
> >
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> -Ian Woollard
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> We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
> imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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