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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

ChillyBeanBAM Whaam! Whacka wow! (Apprentice)
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#1551: Oct 24th 2022 at 3:12:11 PM

RE: Keith David spoiler tag

So should I get rid of the spoiler tag, or cut the whole thing?

Edited by ChillyBeanBAM on Oct 24th 2022 at 6:12:47 AM

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#1552: Oct 24th 2022 at 3:13:08 PM

Get rid of the spoiler tag. Keith David has plenty of roles. Like a name on its own won't spoil anything

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#1553: Oct 24th 2022 at 5:08:07 PM

I think spoiler tags should be allowed for characters whose names are spoilers. (For example, if a character introduced toward the end is Real Alice, implying that the Alice whom the audience gets to know throughout the work is a Fake Alice.) Don't know whether that's the case here.

SkyCat32 The Draftsman of Doom (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#1554: Oct 24th 2022 at 5:15:51 PM

I mean, when it comes to the folders themselves, we usually use other titles like "The Killer", "The Prisoner", or an attribute before their identity is revealed. For Characters.Ten Cloverfield Lane, I referred to the Aliens as "Other Characters".

Edited by SkyCat32 on Oct 24th 2022 at 8:16:42 AM

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#1555: Oct 24th 2022 at 5:21:50 PM

If there's a non-spoilery way to describe them, then by all means. But I wouldn't rule out the need for spoiler-tagging completely.

Anyway, looking at the work's character page, it doesn't look like the name itself is a spoiler.

ETA: Hang on, the character's entry (on DuckTales 2017: McDuck Family Household and Employees) has the voice actor spoilered out. Not sure why that would be necessary. I can see cases where it gives away a character's connection to another character the VA voices (and even then, the VA name isn't necessarily a spoiler, since lots of VAs voice multiple characters in a work), but according to Keith David's page, that's the only character he voices.

Edited by Twiddler on Oct 24th 2022 at 5:26:56 AM

SkyCat32 The Draftsman of Doom (Five Year Plan) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
The Draftsman of Doom
#1556: Oct 24th 2022 at 5:30:41 PM

…On Characters pages, do not ever conceal the name of a character in a folder or header. note 

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#1557: Oct 24th 2022 at 5:36:09 PM

I am not talking about Characters pages. (digression aside.) I am talking about the question of spoilering out the character name in a role on an actor's page.

On a work's character page, one can expect to encounter spoilers for that work. On an actor's creator page, one does not expect to encounter spoilers for anything they've played a role in.

Edited by Twiddler on Oct 24th 2022 at 5:55:21 AM

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#1558: Oct 24th 2022 at 6:13:04 PM

The logic seems to be that the character speaking at all is the spoiler. Granted, even saying he has a VA kind of defeats the purpose, but I never said anyone who couldn't grasp the spoiler policy understood the concept of spoilers.

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Oct 24th 2022 at 9:14:44 AM

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#1559: Oct 24th 2022 at 10:53:55 PM

Because actors are above the Examples line, they should never be spoiler tagged IIRC.

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#1560: Oct 25th 2022 at 12:08:59 AM

Also Voice Grunting is a thing so having a VA isn't strictly a spoiler anyway.

Oratel What is this thing you call time management? from Between States of Fixation (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: I miss my wife, Tails
What is this thing you call time management?
#1561: Oct 27th 2022 at 11:06:47 AM

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle's page is almost entirely spoilered tagged: only 12 of the 57 examples don't contain any spoiler tagging and, of those 12, a couple are misuse and/or ZCEs. I've read this novel and can attest to the difficulty of explaining the story without spoiling at least something that was set up as a reveal of some kind.

I propose making this work page Spoilers Off and adding a warning as such at the top. Any objections?

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RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#1563: Oct 27th 2022 at 12:11:11 PM

[up][up]I scanned over the page. I also agree it should be Administrivia.Spoilers Off plus have a Spoiler warning or something like that.

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#1564: Oct 27th 2022 at 12:12:59 PM

[up][up][up] I wouldn’t object to making the page spoilers off.

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Oratel What is this thing you call time management? from Between States of Fixation (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: I miss my wife, Tails
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#1565: Oct 27th 2022 at 12:19:46 PM

[tup] Will get that done shortly.

ETA: Aaaand done!

Edited by Oratel on Oct 27th 2022 at 4:07:30 AM

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#1566: Oct 28th 2022 at 4:08:38 PM

The Bug Fables character sheet is a little weird when it comes to spoilers. The Big Bad's folder isn't Spoilers Off despite being littered with tags, while most of the other folders under his section are Spoilers Off, from The Dragon to a fairly minor character that you only have to talk to once (Jayde). Optional Party Member Chompy is also treated as a big spoiler despite having no role in the main plot and being seen in promotional material (I checked the Steam store page and she's clearly visible in at least one screenshot there).

Parts of these, like Chompy being treated as a spoiler and Swiss chees-ing a bit of the page, also applies to the other subpages, but the character sheet stands out with the sheer number of "UNMARKED SPOILERS" for secondary or minor characters. I suggest don't treat Chompy or the Kali fight as spoilers and making the entire Wasp Kingdom section Spoilers Off at least.

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#1567: Oct 28th 2022 at 4:18:44 PM

[up][tup]to the suggestion in the last sentence.

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gjjones Musician/Composer from South Wales, New York Since: Jul, 2016
Musician/Composer
#1569: Oct 29th 2022 at 5:00:48 PM

Just did that and added the note regarding the spoilers on the moments pages.

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ejmenendez Since: May, 2015
#1570: Nov 4th 2022 at 3:42:58 AM

I've been noticing on the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) that one of the characters, Ugly Sonic, has been getting their name spoilered because their appearance was a surprise to the audience. However, their actions and what they do have not been spoilered and it's just the identity of the character that gets hidden, which I don't feel is necessary since a majority of people both know and have talked about it.

ForgoLight The Ultimate Lifeform Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
The Ultimate Lifeform
#1571: Nov 4th 2022 at 9:51:43 PM

Excuse me? This is gonna be a long one so here we go. I was just browsing the tropes page of Luz Noceda, main protagonist of The Owl House, and I noticed that she had an awful lot of spoilers on her page. I stopped to count and I eventually came out with 160 spoilered tropes of 232 tropes in total.

Almost 70% note  of Luz's tropes have spoilers on them, to the point where I myself felt comfortable adding the trope Walking Spoiler due to how much Luz's character was advanced by extremely spoilery revelations throughout the series. I was asking to find out if we should just have her be an "All Spoilers Unmarked" character like Emperor Belos, The Golden Guard, and The Collector are since she has such a massive spoiler ratio. (Not to mention how many of the spoilered tropes tend to be longer, or have multiple different indents on them and thus take up a lot more space even without the high ratio.)

Is there a threshold at which point a character becomes so spoilery that they have to be all spoilers unmarked? I know that Void Termina of Kirby had the vast majority of his tropes get spoilered and then unmarked due to how many he had, so I was wondering if Luz had met that threshold.

Edited by ForgoLight on Nov 5th 2022 at 1:47:20 AM

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harryhenry It's either real or it's a dream Since: Jan, 2012
It's either real or it's a dream
#1572: Nov 4th 2022 at 10:22:11 PM

[up] Since Luz is the main character, that might be enough justification to have Spoilers Off?

ForgoLight The Ultimate Lifeform Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
The Ultimate Lifeform
#1573: Nov 4th 2022 at 10:29:27 PM

[up]Sorry, is it a problem to unspoiler Main Characters? I mean I know that visitors would get spoiled on a ton, but at this rate since she had so many spoilers on her page, I was thinking that it was basically moot due to how much of the series you have to watch to get a full grasp on her character.

If it's a problem I will happily leave it as is, though I do intend to keep adding tropes I feel fit, most of which will also be spoilered. I just thought I would bring this to everyone's attention. Sorry if this is an issue!

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RandomTroper123 She / Her from I'll let you guess... (Not-So-Newbie) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
She / Her
#1574: Nov 4th 2022 at 10:39:57 PM

To answer your question at[up], I feel that depends on the character. As for your suggestion, I guess her page can be Administrivia.Spoilers Off.

ForgoLight The Ultimate Lifeform Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
The Ultimate Lifeform
#1575: Nov 4th 2022 at 10:52:47 PM

Okay... Is there some sort of a method I or others should use to unspoiler her page aside from just editing it? I'm new here so I don't know most of the intricacies of how this stuff works, and I was personally thinking of waiting for getting like two or three more votes of approval before I did anything or waited for someone else to unspoiler her.

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