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NEVER spoiler tag a description or a potential trigger word. Ever. In that case, it looks like the tropes relating to rape are spoilered because of plot reasons, though. If there is something that spoils the plot of a work in a description, delete the spoiler. A troper actually got suspended for this a few months ago when they spoiler tagged anti-transgender slurs on Transsexual's description.
EDIT: I see you went and unspoilered the trigger words. If they respoiler it again, talk to a mod here, as they shouldn't be spoilering trigger words.
Edited by IlVitRighto, got it. What about in the trope list below the description? The Kimya Dawson page is a good example - the "cut yourself, burn yourself, kill yourself" text under Album Title Drop was spoilered even though it wasn't actually a spoiler (and, being a song, there was arguably no plot to spoil in the first place). I unspoilered it - should I continue to do so? I figured that the only time something should ever be spoilered (irrespective of how disturbing it may be) is if it directly ruins a plot point. Is that about correct?
Siggy boogy doog.Aaaand they went back and respoilered the page. PM'd.
EDIT: I also went to the Editing Locked Pages
thread to ask if some text preventing this sort of thing could be added to Handling Spoilers.

So what's our policy on using spoiler tags as poor-troper's trigger warnings? I try to sift through the wiki every once in a while to uphold the official "No trigger warnings except on Fanfic Recs" rule, but I've noticed that in some cases pages will have text (which does not constitute plot-spoiling revelations) spoilered out because it contains the word "rape" or references self-destructive behavior like cutting.
The Politician's Husband was an example of a page that contained a trigger warning in the work summary and spoilered "trigger text." I went ahead and removed that to bring it in line with the "no T Ws outside FFR" policy, but there's an accompanying work The Politician's Wife which, while the page lacks the explicitly-stated trigger-warning text in the summary, still contains "trigger spoilers" in the trope list.
My inclination is to remove them as their use is clearly intended simply to mask trigger-warning-related words and not to actually preserve plot, but as I'm not personally familiar with the work, I also of course don't want to accidentally ruin the plot by mistakenly unhiding a legitimate spoiler.
Can someone provide a little clarification on what to do in these cases? Kimya Dawson is another example of spoiler tags used in a non-plot context. I went ahead and removed them as well, citing the Wiki Talk discussion wherein "No warnings outside fanfic recs" was originally agreed upon and made official.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Edited by celticwhisper