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Spoiler Protocol

Any information that reveals plot events from a book or other narrative work is a spoiler. Many people don't like to know the ending of a book before they read it, and editors should be sensitive to this while editing the S-d wiki by hiding or marking spoilers.

However, while editors should attempt to warn about possible spoilers, readers must still remember that some spoilers may be unmarked. Editors may forget about spoiler warnings or may have a different idea of what constitutes a spoiler than a particular reader might. Read all articles at your own risk.

Hiding Short Spoilers

If a spoiler is only a few sentences long and is a short part of the article or section, please write Spoiler: and "white-out" the spoiler by changing the color of the spoiler text to white. It should look like this when you type it:

This sentence contains no spoilers. %red%'''''Spoiler: '''''%% %white% However, this sentence "spoils" the end of the book.%% The rest of the article contains
no more spoilers.

In the actual article, you would have to highlight the text to read the spoiler. It would look like this:

"This sentence contains no spoilers. Spoiler: However, this sentence "spoils" the end of the book. The rest of the article has no spoilers."

Marking Articles Full of Spoilers

If an entire article contains spoilers throughout, please label it with This article contains spoilers. To do this, type !!%red%'''''This article contains spoilers'''''%% directly under the title or at the top of the page if there is no title.

Marking Sections Full of Spoilers

Similarly, if an individual section contains spoilers throughout, you should label it with (contains spoilers). Type it directly next to the title of the section. It should look like this: !!Title of Section - %red%'''''(contains spoilers)'''''%%. If an article has already been spoiler-marked, individual sections don't need further warnings.

Categories: Guidelines

Page last modified on May 10, 2013, at 02:29 PM