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^If you think a particular character's tropes are really going to ruin things, you could add in a little warning above his trope list. That seems reasonable. If you end up adding them to almost every character, a single warning at the top would probably be better, though.
EDIT: Also, if the whole page needs that warning, spoiler tags should probably be removed entirely.
Edited by DracMonsterThe best way I've seen this handled is to add it to the character's little blurb at the top of their character profile in spoilers and not in their trope list, if that makes sense. For example:
Character Name
A main character, really likes shooting things. Killed off for real after he turns out to be The Mole.
- All-Loving Hero: At least at first, despite his Trigger-Happy leanings. Turns out it was an act to get the heroes to like him.
- Arm Cannon: His left arm turns into a gun the size of a supertanker.
Nope. No spoilers above the example line. It's on the Spoiler Policy. If it's something you have to tag, don't put it in the description. If a character has so many spoiler tropes that they're impossible to discuss without tagging everything (such as a character who's name and very existence is a spoiler), change the name of the folder to "Spoiler Character," and then remove all spoiler tag from the entire entry. If the entire page is full of characters like that, put a really big warning at the top of the page to the effect of "Warning! Due to the spoileriffic nature of every single character on this page, it is impossible to discuss anything without whiting out everything. Therefore, all spoilers are unmarked."
Now, as for less extreme measures. My vote is still to hide the spoiler tropes in other entries. So, just for example:
- Disney Death: Bob apparently dies right before the second act. He survives, but is Killed Off for Real at the end of the movie.
Mods haven't come down with a ruling on that, but I still think it's a good compromise.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.There is a ruling on "wicks that would be considered spoilers in spoiler tags". The ruling is don't do it. You could leave it as text, but not a wick.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.That just sounds like you could do Almost Dead Guy instead of Almost Dead Guy. It just means a copy and paste into the search box instead of a click. Of course, someone who really wanted to be spoiled would take the extra steps, and would have far less reason to gripe.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettPer Word Of Eddie, trope names, entire examples, and above-the-line descriptions may never, ever be spoiler tagged. If that means you have to put spoiler warnings in the header, then do it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"^ What's the reasoning behind this policy, actually? Seems to me that it would only work for characters who are Walking Spoilers, while not so much for some others. Death Tropes, Heel–Face Turn, Face–Heel Turn and other revelations seems to be an instant-spoiler the moment it gets tagged to the character even without needing context, annd putting spoiler warning in the description don't seem very useful, since the reader don't know which spoiler to avoid.
The purpose of a wiki is to convey clear, useful information. Examples that are completely redacted fail at this purpose. Not being spoiled is secondary at best.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Plus if you spoiler out the trope name then all you've done is turn it into Schmuck Bait, which is worse than a spoiler.
Spoilers can be written in such a way that they do not obscure the explanation of the trope example. That's what we care about. We have a whole policy and everything on it, I think it's around here somewhere. Oh, right.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I wanted to address the issue with using Spoiler tags to hide tropes on character sheets...so how come it's now forbidden to do that, because to me, I feel as though that tropes itself can be spoilers in my opinion.