Violations of the Spoiler Policy

One of the subbullets under Older Than They Think on YMMV.Pokemon Horizons The Series mentions a plot point from Pokémon the Series: XY (the true identity of Blaziken Mask) under spoiler tags... which is not really a spoiler since it was revealed right after the character's third appearance (to put it in easy terms for those who don't know the matter: this superhero guy appears for the first time in the second episode of the season, then appears in his civilian identity seven episodes later and in the episode after that it's revealed than they're the same person).

Edited by PhantomDusclops92 on Jan 1st 2024 at 10:30:13 AM

I feel you can untag it then.

Characters.Felidae has an issue with the last character listed. The Big Bad appears for most of the film under a fake identity: whoever wrote the page decided to hide under spoiler tags the name of the fake identity, the list of voice actors and every single trope describing actions he does while undercover. This obviously is against spoiler policy rules.

Characters.The Masked Singer and its subpages all break the Character page spoiler policy.

The identity of the singer is the big reveal, so it's above the line but spoiler tagged on every character profile.

As with other Reality Show pages, there may be a few other issues as well, but how should we tackle this one?

I feel like we should just untag the whole thing, as the unique nature of this show makes it impossible to talk about the singers without spoiling their identities.

I agree, unmarked spoilers would be good.

Speaking of which, should "Eric The Pie" be marked Spoilers Off? The story is rather short as it's only ten pages long and the examples are inconsistently spoiler-taged.

Characters.Spider Man Spider Verse The Spider Gang has inconsistent spoiler tagging in regards to Peter B. getting back together with MJ and having Mayday, with it sometimes being tagged as a spoiler and other times not. Given Mayday was in promotional material, and her character folder doesn't mention spoilers, should I get rid of these considering it's a Late-Arrival Spoiler?

KOman has removed spoiler markup from YMMV.One Piece regarding specific part, citing It Was His Sled. It Was His Sled is not a Spoilers Off clause, Late-Arrival Spoiler is, so I don't get the reasoning.

Characters.Shugo Chara has spoilers in the folder headings.

I was told to alert this thread to one I made some months ago.

Laundry Pizza 03 also said the task I brought up should be automatable, tho bwburke94 contested that claim.

Edited by JHD0919 on Feb 3rd 2024 at 12:07:14 PM

Itty Bitty Wiki Tools says that the spoiler-stripping tool we currently have has problems with stray brackets after potholes.

I'm sure that a properly-coded regex can fix that, but it's beyond my capability.

I'd assume any stray bracket could break the page anyway, like improperly closed notes and labelnotes.

I'm not sure how the site does it, but for Regex a block like: [[spoiler:text [[WikiWord WikiText]] text]]" would be of high difficulty as it can't really count which closure corresponds to which opening.

Not sure what the tool page has to do with the cleanup though.

Strictly speaking, the scope of this thread is currently limited to policy breaches, not decisions about spoiler policy for individual work pages.

Is there an appetite to cover that in this thread, or to create a new thread for those conversations?

Edit: Prompted by a Wiki Walk through our Classic Theatre index, and the realisation that we have a significant number of significantly Older Than Radio —- and even a few Older Than Feudalism — pages with spoiler tagging.

Edited by Mrph1 on Feb 20th 2024 at 2:01:42 PM

This thread kinda handles questions other than violations more often than not. May as well rebrand to spoiler policy cleanup.

YMMV.Transformers Rise Of The Beasts has examples under They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character and They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot that uses spoiler tags to hide all the Maximals that appear in the film outside of Optimus Primal. Except that they're not spoiler at all: they were all shown since the first trailer, they all got figures in the movie's toyline, and also they all debut in the first two minutes of the film.

I stumbled across Kaijumax, whose description is full of spoiler tags due to trying to describe each "season" of the comic, which inevitably requires spoiling what happened in the previous one.

I'm not familiar with this work, so I'm not sure if it'd be a good idea to limit the description to only cover the basics of the first season.

Series.Quiet On Set has a spoiler in the description above the example line. I'm not familiar with the work, so I'd appreciate some cleanup assistance.

I feel it can be removed. Work descriptions are for the publication info and the premise. It's not important to know that a popular actor is cast as a Walking Spoiler.

The last sentence of VideoGame.Liyla And The Shadows Of War is "The game is very short, and to say anything more would lead to spoilers." Every example so far has spoiler markup.

Would it be fine for me to remove said markup and replace said sentence with "Since the game is very short, all spoilers will be unmarked."

Just did, thank you.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Mar 29th 2024 at 3:23:41 AM

Yes, that sounds fine to me.

YMMV.Pokemon Lets Go Pikachu And Lets Go Eevee has a spoiler-tagged entry under Unexpected Character mentioning a specific character... who was already mentioned earlier on the page under That One Boss with no spoiler tags.

X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse has spoiler markup above the examples header with Magneto's name. Should we remove the part mentioning his role outright, or reword the sentence to avoid mentioning his name?

ShoutOut.Henry Stickmin Series has complicated spoiler-marking where it's difficult to decide the sixth game's Right Hand Man is a spoiler or not.

Characters.Steins Gate is a mess regarding spoilers. At the beginning there is a warning of all spoilers being unmarked, but some characters have them marked. I am considering stripping all of them, but maybe we could clean up better add marking to all characters.

Edited by animuacid on Apr 3rd 2024 at 12:33:43 PM

The only issues I see is Akiha Yukitaka having two character names spoilered, the first one being odd considering it's not even a secret, and the second can be cut out due to containing lategame information. And Imamiya Tsuzuri, which contains some background information that can be removed entirely if it doesn't fit some trope.

"All Spoilers Are Unmarked" is clearly a lie and I'd rather remove it than leaving the page spoilers-off.

Edited by Amonimus on Apr 3rd 2024 at 1:41:37 PM