Recaps are already explicit exceptions. Fourth bullet, in bold:
- Recap and Timeline pages. These are designed to give detailed information about the plot of a work. It is impossible to know all of the details without knowing the spoilers. Details about future episodes should not be on an episode's recap page to begin with; those go in the page for the episode in which they appear. Foreshadowing should be handled delicately; again, mention only the details in the episode in question and not what specifically is being foreshadowed.
I mean, pages for individual pages of anthologies, in spite of needing to logically inhabit the "Recap" space, should be excepted from that and instead be treated as if they were individual works.
You mean like an individual short story that was published in an anthology? That can get its own Literature page if it has enough tropes to stand on its own.
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More like individual episodes of stuff like Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities or Black Mirror. The latter has callbacks and possibly a shared universe, but the "episodes" are still meant to be individual pieces.
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There's a new forum discussion
about potentially changing the spoiler policy for older works - no longer treating anything Older Than Radio as automatically Spoilers Off.
If you have a view on this, please join the thread and comment.
So would films that got a sequel be Spoilers Off too?
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That's not an automatic reason for a page to be spoilers off. Generally speaking, if spoilers can be hidden without hiding most of the page, then there's no reason not to use spoiler tags.
I don't get why all recap pages should be spoiler free, at least when it comes to mystery shows. Those have their own self-contained plots and there are some people, like me, who prefer to watch them out of order while looking at recap pages for an idea of what episodes are any good.
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Frankly, if spoilers bother you that much, you shouldn't be reading pages about shows you haven't watched. Just because a page is allowed to have spoiler tags doesn't mean that everything you'd prefer was hidden will be. Different tropers have different standards regarding what constitutes a spoiler.
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I don't look at every trope, just a few of them to get an idea of whether an episode sounds too dark or bland.
Psshhh...
Spoiler tags are forbidden in Recap pages, but how should spoilers be handled if they relate to future episodes of the same series (such as for "Funny Aneurysm" Moment and similar tropes)?
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Probably just omit them altogether.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Late reply, but I'd say that the link to "Funny Aneurysm" Moment, Hilarious/Harsher in Hindsight, etc, should go on the latter episode's page, referencing the episode that it made (not) funny, and not the elder's.
Ketchum's corollary to Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced tactic is indistinguishable from blind luck.
I've only recently seen this policy get enforced on several subpages, like crowning moments of heartwarming, funny, awesome, and tearjerkers. But does this apply to the pages for fanfics too? I see lots of fanfic pages that have important points covered with spoiler tags, both the main page and subpages. Can someone clarify if it applies for them too please?
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Go ahead, remove them. We treat fanfic equally on ground with commercial works, don't we?
Would anyone be opposed to Spoilers Off for Recap pages? If you're deliberately looking up information on a specific episode, you're probably looking for details. If you don't want to be spoiled, you'd probably be looking for a more general overview, like the mainspace page.
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This troper is disagrees with the current spoiler policy for "anything in J.R.R. Tolkien's written works". While The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit are well-known and popular throughout the world, Tolkien's lesser known works such as The Silmarillion and The Children Of Hurin are not. This especially goes for the tale of The Children Of Hurin, in which there are more than a couple plot twists and surprises along the way that will catch a new reader off-guard.
As someone who dislikes spoiling her favourite books and shows to potential new readers/viewers, I am wondering what the administration and fellow tropers would think of amending this spoiler policy only to include The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.
Thanks.
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I can't manage to choke through the First Age lore myself, but you can always count on me to defend the non-spoilage of things not generally read.
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Yeah, it should just be The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.
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I took out the It Was His Sled bit (which had replaced the You Should Know This Already bit), since that trope isn't quite as broad as people think it is and has a tendency to attract bad examples anyway.
- Pretty much anything on It Was His Sled, courtesy of Popcultural Osmosis blowing the surprises.
- Of course, opinions vary on which ones fall into that category, so be careful.
- Aeris Dies.
- Of course, opinions vary on which ones fall into that category, so be careful.
Recaps and related pages for anthologies should be explicit exceptions. By definition, anthologies are effectively individual works which are lumped together for convenience, which greatly differs from individual episodes of a larger work/narrative.
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