Violations of the Spoiler Policy

Not sure what the situation is. If people are adding spoilers from material that hasn't been released yet, then the spoiler material. On the other hand, if it's been released in print form and has a slower online form, then that policy seems fine.

Characters.Wanda Pierces Jokes needs looking into, as the vast majority of the examples are spoiler-marked.

Despite the hidden comment saying not to spoiler trope titles in Ace Attorney: Defense Attorneys and Assistants, this is not respected for the entries under Kristoph Gavin and Aristotle Means. There are other issues like potholes in spoiler tags as well. I would deal with it, but I'm in the middle of a wick cleanup right now.

edited 21st May '16 6:53:13 AM by Berrenta

Series.The Blacklist has some giant spoiler tags in its intro. Should that paragraph undergo deletion, or simply a rewrite?
The references to "current" and "upcoming" events probably also need addressing.

EDIT: Never mind, I'll fix this myself.

edited 21st May '16 7:37:41 AM by dsneybuf

I think NightmareFuel.Undertale should be spoilers-off, given how much of the material listed occurs later in the game.

Agreeing with this.

Characters.Kirby has spoilers above the example line for a large number of characters, plus a few Walking Spoilers. I suggest splitting it so the villains have their own page and making it Spoilers Off.

edited 22nd Jun '16 7:07:47 PM by Karxrida

The Undertale page also has issues with both Swiss cheese entries as well as entire paragraphs covered with spoiler tags.

RWBY Grimm Darkness and its associated characters page has a very big problem with spoilers.

I did PM the author a while back about some of the problems on the page. They never responded to me but did remove the excessive bold/italics mark-up. As they didn't address the spoiler tags, I left a message on the Discussion Page. That has never been responded to and the page has not been cleaned up.

Part of the problem is that the author has put onto the two pages "future" tropes (ie, tropes that haven't happened in the story yet). They shouldn't have done that, but as I have never read the story, and they've removed all the bold mark-up that identified future tropes from occurred tropes, I can't tell what's what.

As it stands, I think most of the entries on the two pages are a problem. I didn't want to go ahead and start cleaning because there are so many problems I could easily end up blanking the pages, and I don't want to do that. I need help to identify what can be salvaged and what should be nuked.

edited 2nd Jul '16 5:09:16 PM by Wyldchyld

One of the most common violations I see is putting potholes in spoiler tags, but so many pages violate this rule that cleanup would be damn near impossible.

Characters.Les Legendaires has a serious problem with completely spoilered examples. Bad enough I think it might be worth stripping spoilers then putting them back afterward.

One some pages, such as Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, and Marvel NOW! (2016), I've tried to get around the "no spoiler tags above the line" rule by hiding the spoilers in notes. Does this sound acceptable?

I don't think so.

Notes are never acceptable for mandatory content. If you put something in a note and the rest of the example becomes ZCE then you can't do that.

Notes are only for optional information.

How would you recommend sharing the information in those notes?

edited 12th Jul '16 10:27:32 AM by dsneybuf

This site is not wikipedia. Complete plot synopses are not our thing. Instead, most work descriptions talk about the beginning, and the middle, and in general. If the beginning or middle contains a spoiler, it is time to learn the fine art of being really vague.

In other words, intentional incompleteness.

Well, out of the three I linked to, the one I feel the most concerned about involves how to credit Martian Manhunter's actor from Supergirl (2015) on his page, without spoiling who the character disguises as for the first few episodes - I fear just saying the actor's name will cause new viewers to put two and two together, like, "Hey, that's the same guy who plays (insert other character's name here)...OMG!"

edited 12th Jul '16 10:52:18 AM by dsneybuf

In other news, Film.Halloweentown violates the warning not to spoiler-tag the title or number of the installment.

Also, WebVideo.Im A Marvel And Im ADC has spoiler tags above the line.

Icarus Falls has spoiler tagging that just makes my eyes bleed.

Literature.Captain Underpants has several spoiler tags not accompanied by either the name or number of the book the reader risks spoiling by opening them. I can't add the names or numbers myself, because I haven't read this series in years.

The Power of Five has huge blocks of whited out text in the description. Anyone familiar with the work know how to rewrite this in a way that doesn't spoil the entire plot of each book?

I read the first four books a while back, I'll see if I remember enough to clean it up.

The spoiler-tagging on You Bastard! for Undertale seems excessive to me. That the rules set out in Handling Spoilers give tropers no clue as to whether or not this sort of thing is acceptable is a total disgrace. In fact, the part instructing tropers to "think about it" after saying that the actual stylistic rules are "too complicated" to describe reads like a warning that the moderators will make up rules on the spot and punish anyone who reads their minds wrongly.

Same issue with Monstress as the work page I cited above.

I attempted to rectify the Undertale example on that page.

The problem with that description goes behind the tagging it also seems excessively detailed.