Talk:Say It With Poison

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This is intended to be a helpful cut-and-paste shortcut, not Wikipedia policy, so if you are editing an article, and this rendition of the warning is not to your taste or is inaccurate for a specific article (maybe the spoilers don't directly follow the warning), feel free to use one that you feel better about. There shouldn't be useless wars over the "right way" to indicate spoilers.

Well, I'll take the liberty to use the one I originally put on this page. Generally, I don't see why anyone should bother about uniformity in this field. Going through what must be hundreds of articles surely is a waste of time? <KF> 21:40, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well, I happen to prefer uniformity, myself. But IMO there's more value to using the msg: form than simply taste; using msg: allows all spoiler warnings throughout Wikipedia to be edited in a conveniently centralized manner, and it allows "what links here" to be used on the MediaWiki page to find all pages with spoilers on them. Bryan 22:39, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hm. Why would anyone want to edit all spoiler warnings? What for? What is the "value" here? Why would anyone want to have a complete list of all pages with spoiler warnings? And, most importantly, why all that drivel from which I quoted if it isn't true?

I've seen quite a number of weird things here on Wikipedia, and this is one of them: People going through what must be hunderds of articles exchanging the old (and, it seems, obsolete) spoiler message with their new automated remote controlled toy one while at the same time not going through the articles they are editing, leaving typos uncorrected etc.

In Say It With Poison I just wanted to point out where exactly the plot summary starts. If that's asking too much, well then, go ahead with your centralised thing. <KF> 23:02, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Once upon a time, the standard spoiler warnings used throughout Wikipedia read something along the lines of "Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers." At some point, it was decided that it wasn't a good idea to have the word "Wikipedia" in there, since the text is intended to be copied and used elsewhere; it would be a bother for such future copiers ot have to go around removing all the references to "Wikipedia" from the bodies of the articles themselves like that. So the warning was changed. With msg: formatting, it was trivially easy to change them all at once like that. That's just an example of how it's been useful in the past; I of course don't know whether we'll want to make changes again in the future. But if we do, then using msg: everywhere is useful.

As for pointing out where the plot summary starts, why not use a header like most other pages with plot summaries do? I'll add one right now. Bryan 23:58, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

If you want it your way, have it your way. I was just trying to format things, I didn't notice this discussion. Dysprosia 23:08, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)