I agree. Though they do say in the "spoiler policy" section that it's okay to put a post behind a spoiler mask if it's from a relatively new movie, and that later viewers of the page can just un-spoiler it when it seems safe.
Another option: When there's a spoiler trope related to a book, I've sometimes left the author's name unspoilered and spoilered out the book's name. (See the John Dickson Carr example on Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon.)
How in the ACTUAL fuck is the second example less of a give-away than the first example? Fucking yankees cant wiki for shee-yat
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Since reading comprehension doesn't appear to be your forte...
Those hypothetical examples are specifically for the page Luke, I Am Your Father. Anyone who reads that particular page should be expecting spoilers about surprise parental reveals. Hiding the names of characters involved makes it clear that the trope was used in a particular work without revealing exactly which characters are related. Listing the characters involved but hiding the rest of the sentence is completely pointless as it's obvious what's being covered up., considering what page it's on.
The real question is how the third example qualifies as "less than worthless".
The fact that the work is on that page indicates that certain characters in said work would have a previously unknown relation to eachother. The only difference between the second and third examples is that the type of relationship isn't revealed in the third. If anything, I'd say that the third example is better since it doesn't reveal anything other than the fact that a work has an example of that trope in it.
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