Forum:Spoilers

Hey everyone - I'm actually a GuildWiki person, just here because I fell in love with Fallout 3 and I was looking for some info. One big thing I've noticed - there are plenty of "non-canon" tags, but seemingly no pages tagged as spoilers. This is fairly irritating as I deliberately (and unusually, for me) chose to deliberately avoid them, but I have accidentally run into about five major plot items in my normal browsing. Could you please add tags to these pages? Back at GuildWiki, we put small, unobtrusive spoiler alerts (see our "Kormir" page for a good example) on most pages relating to major characters and the main questline. That's not a ton, and the tag doesn't need to be at the top of the page - just marking off the particular segment of the article will do - but it helps prevent accidental spoiling. Thank you! Qing Guang 05:19, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

In my opinion, spoiler tags are not really needed. When I go to a wiki dedicated to a work of fiction (be it books, movies, TV series or games), I generally consider the whole thing one big spoiler and I simply don't visit them if I want to avoid those. The only thing I think should have spoiler tags is unreleased stuff (like Fallout 3 did before it was published). Perhaps we should add them to the FO3 DLC articles. Of course, if more people are overwhelmingly in support of spoiler tags, we could add them. Ausir 23:20, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah. That's kind of obvious isn't it, we're an encyclopedia ! AshRandom (Talk) 00:07, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I mean, it doesn't get more comprehensive than an encyclopedia, we're not just going to spoil it, we're going to spoil every last detail of it and show you a picture. Anyway, we did have spoiler tags up, for months, but, it's 2009 now, we took them off and replaced them with game icons (which are pretty nifty I must say ;) . [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 00:11, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Well, I share Ausir's opinion that a gaming wiki is basically a big spoiler in itself. To be honest, I'm not sure whether there's much content that's not a spoiler in a gaming wiki. Maybe for main characters or the main story it'd be worthwhile but certainly not for the side characters and side quests in my opinion.

Another point is page clutter. We already have the canonicity notices, as Qing Guang mentioned. Add spoiler tags on top of that and we'll probably get more notices than content on a considerable number of pages.

That said, I'm not against spoiler tags, especially for upcoming or brand-new stuff. Let's see what people think. // Porter21 U 00:46, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

By the way, I added a spoiler notice for the Operation: Anchorage articles. Ausir 01:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

How about just adding something to the main page, for example: "This wiki is one big spoiler, so turn back now if you want to figure things out for yourself." Or something like that. It's what they use on the Wikihack wiki. I think adding a spoiler notice to everything that is a spoiler would just add clutter to the page. I looked at that "Kormir" page example, and it just looks like a huge mess. (I also fixed the link to that page.) --MadDawg2552 17:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

I'd agree with that, sounds like a good idea to inform people about the spoiler policy before they go browsing expecting spoilers to be marked just to notice they aren't. // Porter21 U 19:05, 15 January 2009 (UTC) Agreed with MadDawg2552. There should be just a section on the main page that says the Wiki is full of spoilers.Bllasae 19:26, October 26, 2009 (UTC)