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May 2021=

Spoilers

It could be just me, but I don't mind when people tell me spoilers about films and stuff. Anyway, maybe some other people don't like spoilers.

Looks like our current lists have a few spoilers.

  • The list of blind characters has some sighted characters that get blinded at some point in the story.
  • The list of time travelers has some people revealed to be time travelers a bit late in the story.
  • I'm guessing that most if not all current and future lists have potential to contain some spoilers.

This is what some other websites do, as far as I know:

  • Wikipedia has no spoiler warnings. (according to Wikipedia:Spoiler)
  • TV Tropes hides spoilers, and we have to click on them to see them, or change a setting to make them all visible.
  • I think some other wikis simply have no spoiler warning as well.
  • Some wikis seem to have lots of spoiler warnings... basically spoiler warnings every page.

As mentioned in Wikipedia:Spoiler, "academic, scholarly, or other professional publications that describe or analyze works of fiction" don't have spoiler warnings. I think it's also interesting that Wikipedia:Spoiler mentions the question of adding or not a spoiler warning to Three Little Pigs.

Personally, I think the result looks good so far. The list of time travelers is simply supposed to have all time travelers, and that's it. So I would suggest just keeping the lists as they are. I'm not really suggesting any change at the moment, I'm just commenting on the current situation. If there's any problem with spoilers, or idea about handling spoilers, feel free to discuss. --DanielCM (talk) 23:51, 20 May 2021 (-03)