Wikipedia talk:Spoiler/Archive index

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| Specific spoiler messages

| Working towards resolution

| Examples

| Revert war

| Dispute

| Spoiler GRIPE!

| idea: spoilers hidden like the content overview

| It also is regarded as an ugly hack.

| A more visible spoiler warning

| Additional warnings - current warnings are only seen if that part of the article happens to be seen

| Spoilers in content list

| Spoiler warnings are ugly - alternative proposals

| Is an exposition of content necessary for a work of art?

| Other warnings, relating to this

| Dealing with spoilers in edit summaries?

| a courtesy to readers

| Guideline

| Request for comment

| A generally contested practice

| Not a problem on other encyclopedias

| Just let me know when I need to vote.

| Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia!

| Problem Solved

| Oh, and also

| Somewhat desperate plea

| TFD not wholly relevant

| A compromise?

| Spoilers in lead

| "Don't include spoilers"

| Back on track

| Comments by folk fresh from WP:RFC/STYLE

| Opposed to spoiler warnings being hidden by default

| Examples of other sources avoiding spoiler warnings

| Deleting spoiler templates

| Keep spoiler tags

| Guideline, essay or rejected status

| Are spoiler tags considered encyclopedic and/or professional

| Are spoiler tags a violation of Wikipedia's NPOV policy

| User:Randall Brackett

| Ryu Kaze

| User:DyslexicEditor

| Were these edits valid?

| User:Shanes

| User:LtPowers

| User:Lee Bailey

| User:RobbieG

| Please lose the "and/or" bit from any templates

| RfC format tweak

| More thoughts on what a spoiler is

| The off-by-default compromise revisited

| Wikipedia:Remove Spoiler Tags

| User:Karwynn

| Possible guidelines

| A truly stupid spoiler?

| Old literature

| What next

| Spoiler Standards

| User:MatthewFenton

| Comment on Richard0612's position

| guideline revision talk page

| Some proposals for this thing

| Don't avoid spoilers for the sake of not spoiling

| Spoilers on a case by case basis

| Use sparingly

| Redundant spoiler warnings

| Categorize spoilers more clearly (Mark II)

| Use in articles of people from reality shows needs to be addressed

| Closing discussion

| Spoiler redirects that reveal true identities

| Spoiler warnings on classical works

| Spoilers

| Reviving "Spoiler redirects that reveal true identities"

| Self-evident spoilers

| More noticable

| Should spoilers be made invisible?

| The use of a slash in "and/or"

| Multiple spoiler templates have been proposed for deletion

| CSS

| Endorsements or not of 'An actual proposal'

| Suggested complete change

| MfD closing is disturbing

| New spoiler warning discussion (5-15-07)

| Request for protected page edit

| Non-encyclopedic?

| Spoiler removal

| What is classic?

| New draft

| Rejected

| Starts off on the wrong foot

| preface to "Problems with spoiler warnings"

| Spoilers in articles not about the fictional work itself

| A Show of Hands

| Rehashing the debate on the guideline page

| Callibrating the teeth of this guideline

| Misapplication of guideline?

| {{Endspoiler}}

| Searching for public opinion

| Works whose plot is 'common knowledge'

| Zero Documented Complaints?

| This looks good

| Question

| Swap positions of When to use and When not to use

| spoiler tags in plot sections

| Option to turn spoilers on/off?

| Spoiler warnings in leads

| What about a poll about actual spoiler warning use?

| Plot vs Plot Synopsis

| No spoiler tags in "plot" ?

| This guideline needs a companion: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (plot summaries)

| According to Spoiler (media)...

| Tony Sidaway's edit of 05:29, 27 May 2007

| "neutral point of view, completeness, encyclopedic tone, or other elements of article quality."

| Requiring a compelling reason

| If you don't, somebody else will

| Why removing spoiler tags kneecaps Wikipedia

| Thank you

| My 2 cents on the spoiler tagging issue

| Thoughts

| 'Compelling reasons'

| And I though spoiler warnings on fairy tales were bad...

| Disputed tag (started 9 June)

| Manufacturing consensus

| Does this really qualify as a guideline?

| Ownership of articles

| Attempting to return to Constructivity

| OTT guideline intro

| 'Compelling arguments'

| Question about timing of plot entries

| One more thing

| Archive

| Compromise guideline

| Alternate template proposal: {{current fiction}}

| Match Point

| "Spoiler warnings may be temporarily added for very new media"

| Disputed Dispute tag poll

| Dispute resolution: Mediation Cabal page

| Recently released media

| OK, my thoughts

| Removal of 'compelling reasons'

| Old version of this page as a compromise

| "May not be used"

| Another possible compromise

| Technical compromise

| Absurdity

| Only put such warnings in articles about fictional subjects.

| Where to go from here

| No spoiler tags on anything? What an excellent idea!

| Nutshell

| Arbitration declined

| Wikipedia:No disclaimers in articles

| What we have consensus for

| Real world perspective

| Are we done?

| The bottom line

| Put 'er down

| Spoilers and occurrence in "plot" sections

| Weasel words in intro

| Is the word Spoiler Now Banned ?

| Ethics of spoilers

| What's wrong with this picture?

| On talk pages

| Ongoing discussions archived?

| I blame the victims

| Why spoiler warnings are necessary

| Taxonomy of the spoiler debate part 2

| Good article writing with hidable spoiler tags compromise

| Let's have a guideline

| A Problem with local consensus

| Hans Brinker

| The "Other" compromise

| All right

| A compromise

| What do those still discussing on this page hope to achieve?

| Rediah's view

| Other websites that use some kind of spoiler notice

| Other websites that have written policies on spoilers

| I miss the spoiler tags

| Spoiler templates proposal at WP:PW

| Completeness

| Spoiler tags are redundant in plot summary sections

| Five articles

| Cases of doubt?

| A brief and unscientific survey of spoiler tagging in the top grossing movies of 2007

| Persistent false allegations of disputed content

| 3RR

| Damn the torpedos, once more into the breach, etc.

| Format of the tag

| Template:Current fiction

| Tested in the field

| New draft is up

| "Newly discovered Shakespeare play"

| "Local editors" use and misuse

| Interesting footnote....

| Spoiler tag placement quality

| Current fiction tag

| Three Spoiler Warnings

| We do not actually use spoiler warnings

| Forking

| A film professor's perspective

| Editing the spoiler template

| Hard Candy

| Notice placed in key places

| TFD

| Asking the larger community?

| Deleted!

| Flagged revisions

| Sunsetting current fiction

| Reviews in plot sections to warn of spoilers

| Request For Comment opened at WP:PW regarding spoilers and sources

| Secondary Spoiler citations in primary research Plot sections

| Removal of the Spoiler Template Does Not Indicate Banning Consensus

| 2007-05-17 WikiEN-l: Wikipedia Spoiler Coup

| Gadgets: social problems

| Ahem

| When spoiler warnings should be given - answers

| Discussion

| Moot points

| Plot information vs Production information

| Work with Internet Movie Database

| Inside the info box?

| Is this page findable?

| future template

| Proposed addition

| Reflections on the end of the spoiler wars

| Proposal: move sourcing debate to Wikipedia talk:Verifiability or somewhere else suitable

| Proposal: Plot summary => Full plot summary

| Avoiding spoiler issues by providing encyclopaedic plot summaries

| Spoiler template?

| Attempt

| Thank you, Wikipedia.

| Censor?

| But Why?

| But Why?

| Shift in policy?

| Recommendation

| Spoilers of unrelated articles

| Vesal's amendment

| Do spoiler tags do harm?

| Lead

| Do you really think this policy has some kind of logic?

| Placement of spoilers

| My. Don't we have a high opinion of ourselves

| A reasonable compromise

| MoS naming style

| Pre-released works and WP:V and Spoilers

| Unrelated work A spoilers in article B

| WP should look after its readers and offer spoiler warnings

| So that's where they all went

| The correlation between Wikipedia and spoilers

| Spoilers Within Episode Short Summaries

| RFC: Change prominence of site disclaimer link in default skin

| What about spoilers for later episodes?

| Spoilers in the lead paragraph?

| A question for pro-Spoiler Warning editors

| Change in policy

| Filter for addition of spoiler warnings?

| Proposal

| Extending the guideline for solutions to puzzles, riddles and games

| Informed Choice (or Having Your Cake and Eat It Too)

| Editorial "courtesy"

| What about just moving possible Spoilers at the Very End for Recent Released Movies?

| Spoilers in the first line of the article

| RfC: Proposal to make unnecessary spoiling clearer in the guideline

| Readd, but only for movies

| Shall we need FAQ banner?

| Spoilers of works in biographies of real-life persons

| Reader poll

| Categories, spoiler warnings and highlighted text

| Edits

| Proposed addition

| Spoilers where you wouldn't expect to come across them

| Non-free content, like images, spoiling plot points

| Democracy?

| Spoilers on ongoing or very recent media