[WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia unlikely to result in collapse of knowledge

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Wed Oct 8 13:02:41 UTC 2008


On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Philip Sandifer wrote:
> There were multiple arguments - NOR, no disclaimers, and the damage  
> they did to organization of articles. But the heart of the issue - the  
> thing that was underlying the whole discussion is that people were  
> seeing spoiler warnings on Romeo and Juliet, and their brains were  
> exploding.

Of course, if that really bugged people, the correct solution was to take
the spoiler warnings off of Romeo and Juliet.  Not to take advantage of the
fact that given the ability to search for templates, it's much easier to
delete thousands of spoiler warnings than add them.




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