[WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia committee member"

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 05:50:12 UTC 2010


Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
> On 31 August 2010 16:51, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   

>> How do you objectively and neutrally determine what is and isn't a spoiler?
>>
>>     
>
> You don't.
> Just like you can't objectively and neutrally determine if someone is fit to
> be an administrator, or if a picture is really "beautiful, stunning,
> impressive, or informative" enough to be featured.
>
> It's a call you make. You do something you believe will get a consensus.
> Most of the time there won't be much discussion: "Crowe was dead himself the
> whole time" and "Tyler Durden is the narrator's alter ego" probably could
> have a spoiler warning; "The Titanic sinks" and "Jesus dies on the cross but
> not really" probably don't need one. If you do get discussion, there's
> oodles of mechanisms to resolve things.
>
>   

A likely edge case would be "'Rosebud' is the name of the
childhood sled of Kane."


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen




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