Removing Spoilers from pages that don't allow them

Per Spoilers Off, spoilers are not allowed on Recap, Timeline, Fridge, Headscratchers, Wild Mass Guessing, and the various moments pages. Despite this, however, I have seen spoiler tags pop up on several of these pages. Thus, this thread is a project dedicated to removing spoiler tags off these pages. I could comb through all the pages and do it myself, but not only are there lots of pages, but I don't want to be spoiled on works I haven't experienced, hence why I'm making this thread.

(I do not expect this project to be a permanent/perpetual thing, hence why I'm putting this in Short Term instead of Long Term. If the project drags out or is expected to drag out, feel free to move this to Long Term or wherever else.)

Edited by JHD0919 on Nov 11th 2023 at 12:03:41 PM

I am curious whether I should make it official that Instant Death Stab is spoilers off, considering it is a death trope.

Bumping for feedback

Try alerting the main Spoiler Policy thread to this post.

Removing the spoiler tags requires only the and won't change the page content, so this task should be automatable.

I don't think it can safely be automated, because there's a longstanding issue with cleaning up spoiler tags which contain potholes. Both spoiler tags and potholes end with ]], so any regex search looking for the end of the spoiler tag will instead find the end of the pothole.

(There's a way around this: don't remove the spoiler tag if [[ appears within it. It'll require manual cleanup later, but at least it doesn't leave any stranded brackets in the meantime.)