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.
- Decisions about spoilers on particular pages (e.g. whether a page should be Spoilers Off) have their own thread
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Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 18th 2025 at 11:06:42 AM
Alright. I'll ask the rest of the staff if it can be applied to other pages in the namespace. I won't have time until later on to hack all 150 of the tags.
Edit: Got the go-ahead to add the namespace to Spoilers Off.
Edited by Berrenta on Oct 19th 2021 at 12:44:53 PM
Too many of the recap pages for Darkwing Duck have spoiler tags inside.
As can be expected from a Danganronpa fanfic by this point, Characters.Danganronpa Class Switch is a mess. (The page is currently checked out, so maybe the person currently editing the page is already working on it?)
2025: the year it all ends?Pokémon Xenoverse haves a lot of character folders with spoilers in their names.
Sunny's folder at OMORI – Main Group has been made Spoilers On
with no edit reason and considering the trope names, I don't see it being any useful.
Maybe put Unmarked Spoilers on the entire Faraway Town section instead? It's just one Wham Episode after another anyway.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupThe ParaNorman example on Informed Wrongness is entirely spoilered out. Can I change it so that the only spoilered parts are the parts that reference her age?
For every low there is a high.
That could work.
Meanwhile, Characters.Hidden Prophices needs a spoiler tag intervention. There are also sinkholed trope entries, but those are easy to resolve.
Edited by Berrenta on Oct 27th 2021 at 11:00:04 AM
Wings of Fire: Main Antagonists has a folder labeled SPOILER CHARACTER.
This all-white example was added to Emerald's section in Characters.RWBY The Heroes:
- Allegiance Affirmation: After receiving confirmation from Tyrian that Salem intends to destroy the world, Emerald decides to help Hazel rescue Oscar, Jaune, Yang and Ren from Salem's whale. She later aids the heroes in subduing a malfunctioning Penny, confirming her decision to switch sides.
Thoughts on what to do with this?
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.Indeed. I think we can try revising the entry where necessary.
Edited by gjjones on Nov 1st 2021 at 3:31:57 AM
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.What needs to be done to revise the entry?
EDIT: Ah, my bad. How's this?
- Allegiance Affirmation: After receiving confirmation from Tyrian that Salem intends to destroy the world, Emerald decides to help Hazel rescue Oscar, Jaune, Yang and Ren from Salem's whale. She later aids the heroes in subduing a malfunctioning Penny, confirming her decision to switch sides.
Ironwood: You've done the right thing.
"Penny": (with Emerald's voice/smirk, shortly before ending the illusion) I have. Feels weird.
Edited by Paradoxic on Nov 1st 2021 at 10:15:36 PM
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
Or maybe you could keep the spoiler tags, but start the example by mentioning in which episode the trope happens.
Although, the mere fact that Emerald's folder is on the Heroes page already gives away the spoiler anyway, so maybe you could just take off the spoiler tag.
(I wonder why her folder was even moved... isn't the policy to hide spoilers from the latest Volume?)
Tropers in the RWBY fandom like troping things the second they happen, so it's not uncommon to see tropers moving entire folders to different pages as soon as an episode has aired, usually without seeking consensus. So, a troper on the RWBY forum thread suggested The Heroes page as a solution, and the majority supported it.
For the character page, I'd suggest removing the spoiler tags, since it'll go under Emerald's folder anyway. There's no point in using spoiler tags if what's hidden is going to be obvious, and the spoiler tags will be removed before Volume 9 starts airing anyway. I would also say that the example quote needs to change. It does not demonstrate the trope, and doesn't even demonstrate the example used; also, if a quote needs a longer explanation that it has words to quote, it's probably not the right quote to be using. As the entry states, the trope occurs when she helps the heroes subdue the malfunctioning Penny, and that moment has a perfectly usable quote:
- Allegiance Affirmation: After receiving confirmation from Tyrian that Salem intends to destroy the world, Emerald decides to help Hazel rescue Oscar, Jaune, Yang and Ren from Salem's whale. She later aids the heroes in subduing a malfunctioning Penny and then gives them all a pep talk, confirming her decision to switch sides.
Oscar: Switch sides, huh?
For the trope page itself, I'd suggest a rewrite like this, which ensures you don't have a 100% spoiler-tagged entry. I would also remove the example quote completely; as I mentioned above, the chosen quote demonstrates neither the trope nor the example. However, while the quote will work on the character page, it's too big a spoiler for the trope page, and I believe it is against spoiler policy to hide quotes.
- Allegiance Affirmation: While imprisoned by Salem, Oscar decides to try and beat her at her own game by sowing division among her followers. The consequences of his actions results in characters having to declare who their allegiances are to. Once Tyrian confirms that Salem intends to destroy the world, Hazel decides to get Emerald and Oscar away from her; he dies securing the freedom of Oscar, Emerald, Jaune, Yang and Ren, placing Emerald in their hands. When Penny malfunctions, Emerald helps to subdue her, and then complains that she's going to be super-pissed if they all give up the fight just as she's switched sides. The heroes accept her affirmation, officialising her defection.
Edited by Wyldchyld on Nov 1st 2021 at 9:50:34 AM
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.there wa an exemple in Retroactive Idiot Ball that was deleted. The exampel was:
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban explains that Harry's parents were killed because the spell they used to hide their location needed a Secret-Keeper and that the man they entrusted to the role happened to be The Mole for Voldemort. Except that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reveals that there is technically nothing preventing you from being your own Secret-Keeper, which is why the good guys' headquarters' location remained a secret for so long. Which really makes one wonders why the Potters didn't chose that option, since they knew they were hunted.
The reason given was that we're not given any details that everyone could do it, and so that there might be some particularities that made the Potters unable to be their own Secret-Keeper...
but by the same logic, we're not given a reason they couldn't be either, so it still remains a retroactive plot hole.
Edited by cricri3007 on Nov 2nd 2021 at 7:23:24 PM
Given the nature of the Fidelius Charm itself, I suspect self-Secret Keeping has some drawbacks that we the audience don't know about.
In-universe, the idea to make Pettigrew the Secret-Keeper came from Sirius (under the rationale that Sirius himself would be too obvious a target); the Potters went along with it, but we don't know why they couldn't have Kept their own Secret.
2025: the year it all ends?While it would make sense for there to be a drawback of some kind to being one's own secret keeper, the text doesn't actually mention anything of the sort, and "it's never said, but it would totally make sense if" is Fan Wank.
So yes, valid example, can be restored.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.I'm not familiar with Loki (2021), but judging from the spoiler tags in the example later down the page, the page quote on Alternative-Self Name-Change is apparently a spoiler.
2025: the year it all ends?

I'd assume people who write or read WMG are fans who closely follow the works and know what has happened in them. It's not really logical to read others' theory-building if you're still early in the work, unless you're watching a playthrough.
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