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I'm not talking about the recommendations, but about fanworks with their won pages (or their own examples on trope pages I guess). And the issue is that some fanfics are based on works that keep being updated.
Apathy is Death. Worse than Death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds beasts and insects.Any spoiler from the original work that's referenced by the fan work is a Late-Arrival Spoiler and doesn't need to be tagged on that page.
Spoilers from the original work not referenced by the fan work rarely have reason to appear on the fan work's page in the first place.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it."Damn it, why aren't Fanfictions a category here?"
We have pages for Fanfic and Fan Works.
The works themselves are in the Fan Fic namespace.
On a trope page they're collected under Fan Works, as noted on Media Categories.
Edited by Arivne^^^ What are you trying to say? Spoiler tags exist for a reason.
^^ Agreed. A page for a sequel or derivative work should assume knowledge of the source work. ("Source work" means any other work from which characters or settings appear.) The spoilers also have to be relevant to the sequel/fanwork; no casually dropping spoilers that are completely irrelevant to it.
To give an example, a cross between Worm and Harry Potter where Taylor and Amy attend Hogwarts (yes, one exists) assumes the reader is familiar with both works, while one that has Taylor gain access to Potterverse magic (while not having any Harry Potter characters or settings appear or be referenced) only assumes knowledge of Worm; Harry Potter spoilers would be tagged (or avoided entirely) on the latter's page.
To give another example, if the premise is "Ash Ketchum gets a Death Note" (again, one exists), the fanfic's pages shouldn't be talking about the events that occur in Death Note unless it's actually relevant to the fanfic. No casually mentioning how a bunch of people die and all that.
edit: ninja'd
Edited by RallyBot2

Damn it, why aren't Fanfictions a category here?
Anyways, should the pages for fanfictions spoiler-tag spoilers for the original work when they don't concern the fanfic itself?