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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 by Mrph1 on Oct 18th 2025 at 11:06:42 AM

bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#376: May 17th 2019 at 7:07:16 PM

[up][up] On that note, the page caption for Darkwing Duck contains a spoiler tag. Given that this is effectively a return appearance for Negaduck, the caption can be unspoilered without any rewrites necessary.

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dragonfire5000 from Where gods fear to tread Since: Jan, 2001
#377: May 18th 2019 at 3:44:37 PM

We're still getting lots of instances of people putting spoiler tags in folder names on the DuckTales 2017: Others page. I've been undoing the inappropriate spoiler tags, but I wonder if there's a way to make sure that new people visiting the page don't make the same mistake.

I've been sending notifiers to the people who add said spoiler tags for now, and I should also point out that any re-adding of spoiler tags for the particularly problematic folders is done by completely different people.

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Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
#378: May 19th 2019 at 7:03:45 PM

A commented out notice might suffice.

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rjd1922 Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular, from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#379: May 20th 2019 at 7:20:36 PM

Andi Mack is overly spoiler-tagged, including Andi being Bex's daughter, which was revealed in the first episode, and Cyrus being gay, which is firmly It Was His Sled.

EDIT: I removed the former and added a note in the description that all spoilers related to the First-Episode Twist are unmarked. Still waiting so see what this thread thinks about Cyrus being gay.

Edited by rjd1922 on May 21st 2019 at 5:55:58 AM

Keet cleanup
bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#380: May 25th 2019 at 9:34:01 PM

The trope Reverse Mole is filled with all-white entries.

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Crossover-Enthusiast from an abaondoned mall (Lucky 7) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#381: Jun 1st 2019 at 3:57:06 PM

Reposting this from Ask The Tropers:

All of the pages for Kris Straub's works have ZCEs and unnecessary spoiler tagging galore, and the page for LOCAL58 also has a problem with speculation.

Edited by Crossover-Enthusiast on Jun 1st 2019 at 6:57:28 AM

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Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#382: Jun 2nd 2019 at 9:00:21 PM

[up]x2 The entire page can probably be stripped since it's a pretty spoilery trope.

bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#383: Jun 3rd 2019 at 8:43:18 AM

Just finished stripping spoilers from the Fire Emblem: Awakening Headscratchers page. Several examples had to be rewritten to avoid spoiler tags.

[up] Yes, I agree Reverse Mole shouldn't have spoiler tags on it, but we should take it slowly because merely stripping the tags leaves a bunch of ZCEs.

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Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
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#385: Jun 8th 2019 at 11:30:31 AM

Characters.Brutal Series Brutal has a lot of trope-names spoiled out... and a lot of ZC Es... it's a great page.

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#386: Jun 9th 2019 at 6:46:33 PM

And no descriptions for the characters. Or individual folders for characters (that one's technically optional, but it helps with readability).

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nw09 Since: Apr, 2018
#387: Jun 10th 2019 at 12:20:18 AM

Characters.Kung Fu Panda 2 has a "SPOILER CHARACTER" folder. What should be done with it?

RallyBot2 (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#388: Jun 10th 2019 at 1:41:58 AM

[up]Rename it to the character's actual name.

DonaldthePotholer from Miami's In-State Rival (Emeritus Troper) Relationship Status: Married to the job
#389: Jun 16th 2019 at 4:38:36 PM

Going back to the question in this post: I can see why Spoilers would be off on the Headscratchers and Wild Mass Guessing for works in a given series that precede the work in chronological and production order being referred to. But otherwise, the answers thus far seem to imply that Late-Arrival Spoiler is in effect.

If this is the case, and the spoiler cannot be written around, or would take significant effort to write around, would it be better to say: "Answered in <later work>" with a pothole to said later work in the brackets?


I do have, however, a policy suggestion for moments from an earlier work that are made either Harsher, Heartwarming or Hilarious in Hindsight or into a "Funny Aneurysm" Moment by a later work: Treat that moment like a Recap/Sugar/Nightmare/Fridge entry and redact the example entirely from the elder work. Perhaps I should put this guideline on the respective reaction pages. There would be a problem where chronological order and production order don't match, but those can be covered on a case-by-case basis at Series level.

Edited by DonaldthePotholer on Jun 16th 2019 at 7:38:59 AM

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#390: Jun 17th 2019 at 7:54:09 PM

The quote on the bottom of Quotes.Everybody Hates Hades remains completely hidden in spoiler tags. I don't know if this violates a rule per se, but it still looks like bad form — to the extent where I felt tempted to delete it.

Edited by dsneybuf on Jun 17th 2019 at 9:54:30 AM

bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#391: Jun 20th 2019 at 9:07:54 AM

ChekhovsGun.Harry Potter looks like Swiss cheese, and by its nature it's a spoiler trope already. Should the tags be stripped?

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Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
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#393: Jun 20th 2019 at 11:40:26 AM

Just add a beware of spoilers warning at the top and then strip it.

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rjd1922 Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular, from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
Best robot boy | he/him | Image Pickin' regular,
#394: Jun 25th 2019 at 2:15:33 PM

Lady Maud's entry on The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes originally called her "The Lady", with her real name under spoiler tags and showed her official silhouette artwork. I added her full artwork under a tag that says "click here to see her true appearance", but is it really necessary to hide the fact that she's an old woman?

EDIT: I removed the silhouette and unhid her full artwork.

Edited by rjd1922 on Jul 17th 2019 at 6:20:21 AM

Keet cleanup
Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#395: Jun 26th 2019 at 1:16:21 PM

The Characters page for the fanfic RWBY: Scars has a spoilery image for Pyrrha. I'm not sure if I should spoiler the image, allow all spoilers up until Volume 4, or make the entire page spoilery. It's a rewrite fanfic so presumably readers have seen the show, which makes most spoilers up until Volume 3 ends (and the story deviates from canon) redundant.

bwburke94 I am mad scientist! It's so cool! from 1.048596% (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: She does the things you do, but she is an IBM
I am mad scientist! It's so cool!
#396: Jun 26th 2019 at 2:57:13 PM

[up] Fan work pages generally assume the reader has knowledge of the source material.

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Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#397: Jun 26th 2019 at 3:05:44 PM

[up] Most of the spoilered out stuff is original to the fanfiction.

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#398: Jun 27th 2019 at 10:05:24 AM

Spoiler images aren't allowed and Weiss is the only other character to have an image. I'd just remove it.

RallyBot2 (Elder Troper) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
#399: Jun 27th 2019 at 11:30:13 AM

The image isn't by itself a major spoiler. It can only be considered a spoiler if "character lives in this AU who doesn't in canon" is grounds for that, but as a major AU things like that are implied already. This is no worse than the post-timeskip pictures (or pictures of Walking Spoiler characters) from canon RWBY.

Pichu-kun ... Since: Jan, 2001
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#400: Jun 27th 2019 at 1:36:34 PM

So leave the page as is?


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