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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Try asking on the Whams cleanup thread
, maybe you'll get some more answers there.
[[Willy's Chocolate Experience The Unknown]
Ok I'll go there. Thank you.
Musician/Composer
For VideoGame.Final Fantasy XV, some of the entries are in all-white (except for the trope name preceding it of course). What's the best way to approach this?
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
Friends forevermore
Mention when it happens, if at all possible.
All-white except for the trope/work name is perfectly fine if the only alternative is swiss cheese or a self-fulfilling spoiler.
Redmess
Does the Incredibles 2 page really need a spoiler warning for the first movie? Obviously a sequel is going to spoil the previous film.
Edited by Redmess on Mar 25th 2021 at 8:41:09 PM
Optimism is a duty.
Yeah, but still. Depends on policy.
"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
Friends forevermore
"Sequel pages are spoilers off for their predecessors" seems obvious to us, but new readers might not know this. It makes sense to keep the warning in place.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Redmess
Do we put those banners on all sequel works, then? I'm not seeing one on, say, Kung Fu Panda 2.
Edited by Redmess on Mar 25th 2021 at 12:17:57 PM
Optimism is a duty.
Friends forevermore
Memes.RWBY Solitas Arc has untagged spoilers for FIRST-exclusive content. The Volume 8 finale doesn't release publicly until tomorrow.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
The Unknown
At that point who cares. It's just one day.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
I'm helping!
I mean, I can think of at least one person who cares.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Redmess
Yeah, we shouldn't have untagged spoilers on newly published works. That's just common courtesy on a wiki.
Edited by Redmess on Apr 4th 2021 at 2:01:38 PM
Optimism is a duty.
Fargo (Series): Narwhal has a "SPOILER CHARACTER" folder that links to another character page in the series.
Edited by Tabs on Apr 10th 2021 at 10:33:00 AM
I find it hard to justify that a swathe of tropable content on The Mousetrap is arbitrarily declared untropable (not even in spoiler tags) just because it's a traditionally guarded spoiler.
I know that the community consensus is to not trope it (to avoid edit wars involving people upholding the tradition reverting anyone talking about the ending), but I'll just drop two cents of my agreement to disagree that I have pent up for so many years here.
Edited by Albert3105 on Apr 10th 2021 at 2:37:29 PM
Friends forevermore
The Mousetrap is how it is because of tradition. Whether it's a good tradition, I can't say.
Really, the only justification for doing that is "stop edit wars over people deleting the ending".
I don't see how a fairly innocuous humorous tradition is bad...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Redmess
Agreed, leave the spoilers out, it's the whole point of the piece, after all.
Edited by Redmess on Apr 11th 2021 at 8:13:18 PM
Optimism is a duty.
I recently removed a bunch of spoiler-tags-above-the-example line from Characters.Kengan Ashura, which hides the names of the opponents the characters fight during the Tournament Arc. Those names are still spoilered in the actual examples, though, which makes it kind of pointless. Should I remove the spoiler tags from those names in the other instances as well, or would it be better to remove their mention from the character description? I don't think "X fights Y" is a spoileriffic information that needs to be hidden, but it's not really important to include in the characters' introductory information either, so I'm fine with either option.
Edited by Adept on Apr 13th 2021 at 9:09:18 PM
What's the spoiler policy regarding YMMV pages? I ask this because Bolt has two tropes for Catharsis Factor and Moral Event Horizon that describes Penny's agent getting decked by her mother, with the former being unspoiled and the latter spoiler-marked.
I think that Moral Event Horizon example is misuse.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
The rules for YMMV pages are no different from regular pages.
Very Spooky
Brought this up a little while ago, but never got a definite opinion from several users: Should Characters.Dark 2017 be Spoilers Off? The page used to have a ton of spoiler tags in character headers (which were recently removed), due to many characters' familiar connections/real identities being spoilers. The same applied to the actor listings, often for the same reason as before. Furthermore, I was planning to add noted images of any characters who are seen at different ages (ex. "Click here to see Bob in 1986"), but the fact that some characters are seen at different ages or end up at certain points in time might be spoiler-y in itself. Would it be easiest to simply make the page Spoilers Off so we can provide information without running into this issue?
Edited by jandn2014 on Apr 16th 2021 at 10:27:12 AM
back lol
Friends forevermore
Many live-action series have spoilers up to a specific point unmarked. In this case, I'd say spoilers for the first two seasons should be unmarked and season 3 spoilers should be marked.
