Spoilers on Character Pages

We decided not to go with "no spoiler tags allowed, period". Rather, the same rules apply as anywhere else. You can't tag trope names and you can't tag anything in a header — the name of a character, the name of a folder, or above-examples description text.

"No spoiler tags, period" is reserved for the most egregious cases.

edited 24th Jul '14 1:45:25 PM by Fighteer

And that I agree with.

One question, though: If you have a character with a spoilerific real name and a commonly used alias, how would you write that? I've often seen it in the character header as "Mr. Johnson (Adam Carpenter)"

I suppose that's okay, as long as the name people will expect to find it under isn't hidden.

Personally, the reason I unmark spoilers on character pages is because I see that there are already so many unmarked spoilers that it is pointless to have marked spoilers in the first place. Like on the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds character page, the descriptions for the characters already spoiled everything, so I went and unmarked them all of the spoilers in the trope examples.

So what do we do about pages that clearly say UNMARKED SPOILERS AHEAD!! and there still are tons of spoilers tags? Do we erase them all? I've come across quite a bit of them, such as Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward.

Yes, erase 'em all.

There's a distinction between "Unmarked spoilers ahead/below" and "All spoilers are unmarked", FYI.

Oh, right. Only erase ones after the "Unmarked spoilers ahead".

Silly me. >.<

I'm starting to wonder if you're deliberately being obtuse. If so, please don't do that.

As I was trying to say, a page can have some spoilers unmarked while others are marked. This is especially true for character sheets, since we've repeatedly established that just having certain tropes in the list counts as a spoiler. That is the difference. Unless it specifically says "all spoilers below are unmarked" (and the "all" IS required), spoiler markup is allowed to some degree.

With that said, overuse can be a thing, but don't just go cutting willy nilly on it; take it to discussion or an appropriate forum thread.

Edited to add: I'm aware that some pages may be under official instruction to remove all spoilers. While I personally dislike this, I accept it, so long as the message at the top of the page makes it clear there are no hidden spoilers whatsoever. If you can point to a specific case where the message isn't clear, but there is a record of a consensus decision to remove all spoiler markup, change the message, please.

edited 3rd Sep '16 4:50:08 PM by TotemicHero