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Greetings! We do not have an ideal method to handle the issue; all the three solutions you mention are common but have drawbacks. I see you have a complaint for spoiler tag misuse; maybe the troper who sent it to you can make more advice?
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Thanks for the response!
Currently, I'm learning toward option 2, since that seems to be what many Visual Novel character sheets have done. (See Danganronpa , Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors , and several others.)
I also asked the troper who notified me about the mishandled spoiler tags to comment on this thread. Hopefully, we can get their input here soon.
Edited by craleigh318
If you're trying to spoiler out Character Death, then I think it only makes sense to do so on the works page, rather than the Characters/ page.
On the Characters/ page, it is a Self Fulfilling Spoiler and the page could either be made "Unmarked Spoilers" or the specifics could be spoilered out (with the information that this person dies in the story being unspoilered). Remember that it says in the description: "This marks it as one of the few Death Tropes that does not require a spoiler warning," so I don't think the portion of the example that says this character dies needs to be spoilered out on the Characters/ page.
Moving the Character Death example to the works page and spoilering out the character's name (so long as it isn't still a Self Fulfilling Spoiler) is a fourth option (it being the works page being significantly different from the Characters/ page).
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Got it.
Originally, I had kept the death tropes on the main page only, but some of the editors were copying the examples to the character sheet anyway.
Due to the Anyone Can Die nature of the visual novel, I'll probably add an "Unmarked Spoilers" policy to the character sheet after all.
There's some spoiler clean-up that needs to be done on the main page as well; I can probably take care of it when I have time.
If I come across any other problems, I'll probably put it on the discussions page.
Thanks again!
Hi everyone! What is the best way to deal with Self-Fulfilling Spoiler and Spoilered Rotten examples on character sheets?
I've been working on the character sheet for the visual novel The Letter , and some of the characters' examples are inherently spoilers on their own. The most obvious examples are Character Death and Plotline Death for the characters who always die in the visual novel regardless of player choice. Currently for these examples, the trope name is visible, with the rest of the description spoiler-tagged.
Some things I could do (not sure what is best):
1. Do nothing.
If the way this character sheet handles spoilers is fine, then I won't do anything else.
2. Add an "Unmarked Spoilers" policy to the page.
I can add an "Unmarked Spoilers" notice at the top of the character sheet, and simply un-tag all spoilers. Since the visual novel is plot-heavy, this might be a good idea.
Besides the main page for The Letter is still spoiler-tagged, and people who want to avoid spoilers can simply read that.
3. Remove those examples.
The main page for The Letter already has a Killed Off for Real example, which AFAIK is already properly spoiler-tagged. I can just merge the examples from the character sheet into that one.
Thanks!
Edited by craleigh318