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Using "Spoiler Character" as the folder name for a Walking Spoiler is the proper way, I believe.
It's specifically discouraged under you're not supposed to have to spoil yourself to find out if you want to view the spoiler. Same as whiting out an entry.
If people are ignoring policy through ignorance, fix and PM the troper. If they think they shouldn't have to follow policy, fix, PM, and report. If they edit war, report.
Adding a Spoilers coming up warning to a page is fine and often recommended. The vague description isn't; there's guidelines on that.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettI feel that we need a complete revamp of spoiler policy rules, and probably need some more hard and explicit rules on them. It seems like every other week there is an issue with spoiler policy now, and we go back and forth on what should and should not be done (personally I don't think we need spoiler mark up at all, it is extraneous to the mission of documenting tropes) and everything just gets confused.
I would like to ask the mods to please consider having a discussion regarding that.
Edited by CrypticMirrorSeptimus, there have been past discussions -Granted, some time ago- on whether Spoiler Character should be used as a folder name. The general consensus was that under most circumstances that arise on the wiki, it's a bad idea, under the previously stated spoiling yourself to see if you want to see the spoiler. Labeling the folder with the character's position-"assassin", "thief", "traitor"- was a recently-suggested compromise.
I believe Cryptic Mirror is suggesting a complete pulling out and cleaning out of the spoiler rules chest, putting back neatly what still works, tossing what doesn't, and then seeing what, if anything, needs to be added.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry PratchettWe aren't going to overhaul the spoiler rules yet again. It's pointless. The rules exist because our wiki is, first and foremost, about conveying information. Anything that obscures that gets tossed. If that means that spoilers are inevitable in some types of articles, then that's something people have to live with.
I make it a point never to go to work articles for works that I'm interested in. Why? Because I know that despite my best efforts, I'll probably see spoilers. I recommend this mentality to everyone.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It's still possible to use spoilers tastefully and appropriately. The problem is when people overuse them to the point where they render the articles non-functional. We elevate our awareness by living forever on the edge.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"At the very least any pages that are not specific to particular works should have spoiler tags, otherwise people might be spoiled for something that they had no reason to expect to be spoiled for. (Barring spoilerific tropes where the presence of the work's name on the page spoils it in itself). Getting rid of all spoiler tags across the board would essentially be saying "if you don't want to be spoiled for anything and everything, we don't want you on this website".
You're strawmanning our position, jamespolk, and we'd appreciate it as staff if you would cut that out.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Administrivia.Handling Spoilers states:
First of all, I see this rule violated fairly often with "spoiler character" folders all over the place, but this isn't the place to discuss that. The question lies in what to do with those folders once we find them.
In a recent edit to Characters.All New Wolverine, I simply replaced the "spoiler character" folder name with a vague description and added a "(SPOILERS)" warning. It's not the best way to handle this and I hate putting in spoiler warnings where people should already expect to be spoiled, but it avoids being a Self-Fulfilling Spoiler, it lets readers who haven't reached that point avoid the spoiler, and it doesn't make it hard for people who are spoiled to guess where that character's entry is.
Is my approach right?