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⚫ Some articles may contain spoilers. A ] is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, feature film, television show or video game) that may reduce your enjoyment of it by revealing certain plot events or twists. If you haven't read or seen the work to which the warning refers, you might want to do so before reading the spoiler in the article.


⚫ Some articles may contain spoilers. A ] is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, or video game) that may reduce your enjoyment of it by revealing certain plot events or twists. If you haven't read or seen the work the warning refers to, you might want to do so before reading the spoiler in the article.
⚫ == Suggested templates ==


⚫ == Suggested template ==
⚫ Not all visitors will recognize the site as an encyclopedia, which should strive first to inform, spoilers or not. The article should also contain analyses and background detail not available—or at least, not obvious—in the work being critiqued. Where this is the case, a spoiler notice should be made prominent as a simple courtesy.


⚫ Not all visitors may recognise the site as an encyclopedia, which should strive first to inform, spoilers or not. The article should also contain analyses and background detail not available—or at least, not obvious—in the work being critiqued. Where this is the case, a spoiler notice should be made prominent as a simple courtesy.


One standard way to warn readers of potential spoilers is to insert before the revealing text: The standard way to warn readers of potential spoilers is to insert before the revealing text:


<nowiki>{{spoiler}}</nowiki> <nowiki>{{spoiler}}</nowiki>
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{{spoiler}}
<div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">''']: ''Plot or ending details follow.'''''</div>


If this general purpose ] is not suitable for the particular article you are working on, feel free to custom-design your own warning text, tailored to the page in question, but please link back to this page.


⚫ == Unacceptable alternatives ==
If you wish to specify the spoiler's nature (particularly if this isn't clear from the article's/section's title), you may substitute:


⚫ On the ], a popular way of avoiding spoilers (and sometimes, offensive material) was ]. This is obviously unacceptable on a general purpose encyclopedia.
<nowiki>{{spoiler-about|(a particular element)}}</nowiki>


⚫ Another common way to hiding spoilers from readers is to changing the color of the text to match that of the page background, thus rendering the text unreadable until hilit by the reader in a selection. ] like this is unacceptable here because it requires explanation to readers unfamiliar with the practice, and because it may be incompatible with ] devices such as ]s. It is also regarded as an ugly ].
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⚫ ]
<div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">''']: ''This article or section contains plot/ending details of a particular element.'''''</div>

This template can also be used to specify that spoilers affect multiple works, as the ''phrase'' can be a list or description of several works which are spoiled by the article involved.


If an article also contains spoilers pertaining to a subject or subjects other than the one indicated in the title, you may substitute:

<nowiki>{{spoiler-other|the other subject(s)}}</nowiki>

This expands to:

<div class="notice metadata" id="spoiler">''']: ''In addition to (page name), this article contains plot/ending details of the other subject(s).'''''</div>



If these general-purpose ]s are not suitable for the particular article you are working on, feel free to custom-design your own warning, but please link back to this page. It's strongly recommended that you do so manually (''not'' in template form), unless you believe that your new spoiler warning is applicable to a wide array of articles spanning numerous subjects. If deemed redundant (in light of the existing templates) or too specific by others, it's likely that your template will be ].

⚫ == Unacceptable alternatives ==

⚫ On the ] ], a popular method of avoiding spoilers (and sometimes, offensive material) was ]. This is obviously unacceptable in a general-purpose encyclopedia.

⚫ Another common way to hide spoilers from readers is to change the color of the text to match that of the page background, thus rendering the text unreadable until highlighted by the reader in a selection. ] in this manner is unacceptable here because it requires explanation to readers unfamiliar with the practice, and because it may be incompatible with ] devices such as ]s. It also is regarded as an ugly ].


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Some articles may contain spoilers. A spoiler is a piece of information about a narrative work (such as a book, film, or video game) that may reduce your enjoyment of it by revealing certain plot events or twists. If you haven't read or seen the work the warning refers to, you might want to do so before reading the spoiler in the article.

Suggested template

Not all visitors may recognise the site as an encyclopedia, which should strive first to inform, spoilers or not. The article should also contain analyses and background detail not available—or at least, not obvious—in the work being critiqued. Where this is the case, a spoiler notice should be made prominent as a simple courtesy.

The standard way to warn readers of potential spoilers is to insert before the revealing text: 

{{spoiler}}

This expands to:

Template:Spoiler

If this general purpose template is not suitable for the particular article you are working on, feel free to custom-design your own warning text, tailored to the page in question, but please link back to this page.

Unacceptable alternatives

On the Usenet, a popular way of avoiding spoilers (and sometimes, offensive material) was ROT13 encryption. This is obviously unacceptable on a general purpose encyclopedia.

Another common way to hiding spoilers from readers is to changing the color of the text to match that of the page background, thus rendering the text unreadable until hilit by the reader in a selection. Hiding text like this is unacceptable here because it requires explanation to readers unfamiliar with the practice, and because it may be incompatible with computer accessibility devices such as screen readers. It is also regarded as an ugly hack. ]

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