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This is the thread to report all violations of the site's spoiler policy in, as well as a place to coordinate cleanup of those articles.

edited 11th Mar '14 3:56:40 AM by desdendelle

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#126: Jan 21st 2017 at 4:16:18 PM

I assume the policy is intended to block any use of spoiler tags in the code above the Examples line?

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#127: Jan 22nd 2017 at 2:21:59 AM

Yes.

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maxwellsilver Since: Sep, 2011
#128: Jan 25th 2017 at 12:59:48 PM

So should Undertale just have no spoiler tags, given the spoiler-heavy nature?

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#129: Jan 25th 2017 at 8:01:04 PM

I say yes. The description even admits that you can't really talk about Undertale without spoiling it somehow.

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#130: Jan 25th 2017 at 9:11:29 PM

Something certainly needs to be done to reduce the spoiler tagging for Undertale, some of those entries are just ridiculous. I'd like to do what the The Force Awakens did by designating the two biggest twists to be the only things that are tagged, but I'm not sure there are really a handful of moments in Undertale that are so much more spoiler-y than the rest.

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#131: Mar 11th 2017 at 7:16:56 AM

We should probably just declare the pages spoilers-off and add a spoiler warning.

YMMV.Fury 2014 has two identical entries, but only one has spoiler tags. Since the scene in question is at almost the very beginning, I'll just remove the spoiler tags.

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#132: Mar 27th 2017 at 11:23:45 PM

I feel like VideoGame.The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild has a ton of unnecessary spoiler tags.

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#133: Mar 28th 2017 at 8:04:48 AM

Open world games are always hard to figure out what to tag, since you can do them in any order. Do you have any suggestions?

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#134: Mar 28th 2017 at 12:40:16 PM

Most stuff related to Zelda (largely memories, not including anything from Impa's first Info Dump or the Old Man's Info Dump). Nothing else is really a spoiler in the strictest sense, especially not the dungeon names, the Yiga Clan, or the Champion Powers.

edited 28th Mar '17 12:41:31 PM by Karxrida

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#135: Apr 11th 2017 at 11:27:37 AM

Doctor Strange and related pages have the main villain's name and everything related to him spoilered out, even though his identity is not a twist or a reveal.

This creates swiss cheese entries and entirely blanked out examples all over the page. Can we untag mentions of the main villain?

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#136: Apr 11th 2017 at 11:28:15 AM

Go ahead.

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#137: May 4th 2017 at 11:54:06 PM

Paranoia Fuel has spoiler tags above the line, but I don't know if removing them would ruin a joke.

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#138: May 8th 2017 at 9:11:02 PM

Characters.Lego City Undercover spoiler-tagged the names of some tropes, but since I might play the game someday, I don't want to read the spoilers myself.

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#140: Jul 3rd 2017 at 5:49:57 AM

ShipTease.Mawaru Penguindrum has the majority of the page in spoiler tags. Should it be toned down?

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#142: Jul 17th 2017 at 8:15:27 AM

[up] is a Candle Jack joke. I have the feeling that's allowed under the spirit of the rule, if not the l

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#143: Jul 17th 2017 at 8:25:49 AM

It's in Sugar Wiki, so it's not super important to enforce the letter of the rules there.

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#144: Aug 22nd 2017 at 8:28:45 PM

Sonic Mania had spoilers above the trope line that I've removed. There are also a number of completely whited-out entires and unnecessary use of spoiler tags in general.

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#145: Aug 29th 2017 at 3:19:36 AM

I think this is an appropriate place to ask this. While removing a spoiler in the description on the Baldur's Gate II: Other Party Members character page I noted that there was a bolded spoiler warning at the top of the page. The Handling Spoilers page says that:

If this policy would cause a page to contain an unconscionable quantity of genuine spoilers, then remove all spoiler tagging and place a bold warning at the top that unmarked spoilers are present.

I was wondering what counted as "an unconscionable quantity of genuine spoilers" and whether to remove all the spoiler mark-ups from the page.

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#146: Aug 29th 2017 at 8:09:35 AM

[up] Common sense is your guideline when treating spoilers, but 80% of content being spoilered out qualifies already.

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#147: Aug 29th 2017 at 9:51:42 AM

[up]Hmmm, okay. The page itself doesn't have that many spoilers but the ones that are there are mostly for a single character.

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#148: Sep 29th 2017 at 11:21:52 AM

Hope this is the right place to ask. An example on Realm of the Elderlings has been changed to this and I'm itching to change the spoiler tags back to how they were, but don't want to cause an edit war or something, so I'm here to ask other opinions:

  • Ambiguous Gender: In the Farseer trilogy there's the Fool, who the narrator Fitz believes is male. The Liveship Traders trilogy has a totally different dramatis personae, including the female Amber. It's never stated that these two are the same person, but more and more clues are dropped as the trilogy progresses, and because Amber advises Althea on how to disguise herself as a boy we start to think he/she is really female and was disguised as male in the earlier books. But in the Tawny Man trilogy, where we and Fitz are told outright that both characters are the same person, there's a section where Fitz inhabits the Fool's body and can presumably tell what sex he/she is, but never tells us! Fitz implies that the Fool's kind are so different from humans that neither gender is appropriate — but then there's the Pale Woman to account for, who is clearly female, leading to the conclusion that not all Whites are the same. This is in line with the Fool's claim that where he comes from, people don't insist on the existence of only two genders.

And this is how the spoiler tags used to be placed:

  • Ambiguous Gender: In the Farseer trilogy there's the Fool, who the narrator Fitz believes is male. The Liveship Traders trilogy has a totally different dramatis personae, including the female Amber. It's never stated that these two are the same person, but more and more clues are dropped as the trilogy progresses, and because Amber advises Althea on how to disguise herself as a boy we start to think he/she is really female and was disguised as male in the earlier books. But in the Tawny Man trilogy, where we and Fitz are told outright that both characters are the same person, there's a section where Fitz inhabits the Fool's body and can presumably tell what sex he/she is, but never tells us! Fitz implies that the Fool's kind are so different from humans that neither gender is appropriate — but then there's the Pale Woman to account for, who is clearly female, leading to the conclusion that not all Whites are the same. This is in line with the Fool's claim that where he comes from, people don't insist on the existence of only two genders.

Opinions? Since the character's Ambiguous Gender is a huge Late-Arrival Spoiler for the series anyway, I don't feel like all that stuff needs to be spoiler tagged.

edited 29th Sep '17 11:24:52 AM by Derkhan

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#150: Nov 19th 2017 at 9:11:50 AM

TearJerker.Blaz Blue has A LOT of whited out text. And the more you scroll downwards, the worse it gets, to the point where the bottom of the page is practically 100% spoiler tagged. I feel like if the page needs that many spoiler tags, it might be better to just put a big spoiler warning at the top and leave everything else unmarked.


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