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Wikipedia articles may include spoilers and no spoiler warnings. A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, television series, or a video game) that reveals plot points or twists. Articles on the Internet sometimes feature a spoiler warning to alert readers to spoilers in the text, which they may then ...
A spoiler is an element of a disseminated summary or description of a media narrative that reveals significant plot elements, with the implication that the experience of discovering the plot naturally, as the creator intended it, has been robbed ("spoiled") of its full effect.
And yet the guideline states "A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, television series, or a video game) which reveals plot points or twists and thus may degrade the experience of persons who wish to experience the work themselves." and "When including spoilers, editors should make sure that an ...
Spoiler (aeronautics), a device which intentionally reduces the lift component of an airfoil Spoiler (car), a device to modify air flow over a vehicle Spoiler (security vulnerability), on modern computer central processing units
In social choice theory and politics, a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating. [1] [2] Voting rules that are not affected by spoilers are said to be spoilerproof. [3] [4] The frequency and severity of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method.
Revealing spoilers appears to be a new feature of encyclopedias (if Wikipedia is any indication), but spoiler warnings have been used on the Internet for very many years. If no article is allowed to have spoiler warnings, the next step is for editors to remove plot details that don't cite reliable third-party sources per WP:RS .
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Wikipedia articles should not contain spoiler warnings, because wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a movie blog or fan site. But I have not very high hopes for getting rid of the silly warnings anymore.