User talk:Jere7my/spoilerdraft

David — thanks for the edit, but one of my goals was to make sure everything in this guideline was only said once. The question of older, well-known works is addressed in the next section; I don't think it needs to be pointed out in the opening paragraphs as well, which (in my eyes) should only cover a couple of rules that pertain to all works, not just older ones. --Jere7my 20:03, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. I kinda skimmed it, and didn't see that then. Axe the redundancy! :) David Fuchs ^(talk) 20:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Phew! OK, good. I didn't want to come across as opposed to any who dare touch my deathless prose. :) --Jere7my 21:52, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Rewritten lead

Old lead:

Wikipedia uses spoiler tags to mark off certain significant plot details ("spoilers") in articles about fictional works. This is an exception to the style guideline no disclaimers in articles. However, since Wikipedia is a user-created and user-edited encyclopedia, there is never a guarantee that any given article will be tagged for spoilers; caveat lector!'

New lead:

Wikipedia occasionally uses spoiler tags to mark off certain significant plot details ("spoilers") in articles about fictional works, though this is far less prevalent than it used to be.

Tagging spoilers in this way is an exception to the style guideline no disclaimers in articles. However, since Wikipedia is a user-created and user-edited encyclopedia, there is never a guarantee that any given article will be tagged for spoilers; caveat lector!

Changes marked in bold. Should be self-explanatory. I can provide copious statistics if necessary. --Tony Sidaway 00:54, 15 September 2007 (UTC)