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I find it depressing every time I try to contribute. Most recently, there was an article on a popular TV show that was in its first season, where the very top
by tunesmith 8y ago
I find it depressing every time I try to contribute. Most recently, there was an article on a popular TV show that was in its first season, where the very top level cast list gave away a spoiler for very late in the season, that completely changed the lives of some main characters. So if you ever check the WP article for the show during the first 8-10 episodes of the season (like I did), you're completely spoiled. It was unnecessary and also inconsistent with the cast descriptions from the show's marketing, and deleting the spoiler had no real negative informative impact, but when I tried to delete the spoiler (two words), it got rolled back with a scolding with a reference to wikipedia's spoiler policy of not protecting the audience from spoilers... which is normally sane, but completely overkill in that particular case.
I ended up asking, what if the WP entry for A New Hope gave away that very famous spoiler about Luke's father in the initial description and cast listing (it currently does not), and then I tried to delete the spoiler? Would the moderation policy roll back my change? He said yes, because of the same reason - WP does not protect audiences against spoilers. So I asked, well then why does the ANH WP article not have this spoiler? And he said, probably just because no one has made the edit yet.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoyou could propose a "spoiler" tag, and people who want spoilers to be censored, should log in and set default spoiler setting to censored for themselves. But the default should be spoiling IMHO. Of course once you've seen the media, and go to the WP pages (with your default censor still active) you'd want some kind of red spoiler button close to "talk" and "history" so you 1) know there is a spoiler tag present and 2) can spoil the secret by clicking it...