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This is a request for comment (RfC) on the use of spoiler tags. This RFC aims to gather community opinion on the Wikipedia:Spoiler warning guidelines and its companion templates: {{spoiler}}, {{endspoiler}}, {{spoiler-about}}, {{spoiler-other}}, {{spoiler-blank}}, {{magic-spoiler}}, {{Solution}}, {{sgspoiler}}, {{Spoiler-season}} and {{Spoiler-solicitation}}.
Previous discussions
edit- Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 May 4#Template:Spoiler
- Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Computer and video_games#Spoiler tags
- Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning/Guideline status — (discussion of guideline status in June 2006)
- Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning/Guideline status2 — (discussion of guideline status in July 2006)
- Wikipedia talk:Spoiler warning — (present discussion and establishment of this RfC)
Older discussions
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Arguments for and against
editThis is a very brief summary of the major arguments for and against the use of spoiler tags. Note that this is only intended to be an extremely brief summary, and all substantive reasoning of arguments can be found on this page's discussion page.
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RfC discussion
editAll new discussion should be directed to this page's discussion page, where arguments and suggested solutions are discussed. Discussion should not be added below.